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"397 Movie Quotes

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

Attention Brought Feel Growing
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Free Liv Live Theater Me
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I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

Ever Got Interested Really
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Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me.

Confidence Every Go Gonna
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I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!

Animals Bats Boiling Cats
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I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

Background Come Even Ever
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With 'Harry Potter,' I've been all over the world. I probably wouldn't have gone to New York so young if it weren't for the films.

Been Films Gone Harry
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We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

Writing Actors Horror
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I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

Any Become Bit Broadway
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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

Control Delivering Films Liked
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Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Been Dust Established Example
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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Admired Ambition American Average Boyfriend
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When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Act Actress Any Desire
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I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.

Apprentice Backyard Contestants Couple
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Frank Ocean, he's the G.O.A.T.

Frank He Ocean
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.

Dumb Hills How Movie
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When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.

Bad Bad Movie Keep Like
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I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
Films Just Like See
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For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

Businesses Estate Financial Greatest
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Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

American American Audience Audience Big
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I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
Action Action Movies Another Few
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Adapting Cinema Cost Culture
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

Bad Bad Guy Die Guy
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

America I Can Kind Like
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

Business Competence Emmy Level
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.

American American Film Because Doing
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
Before Make Safe Stunt
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

Artist Fighting Find Just
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Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

American American Film American Writers Directors
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The movie business is a big gamble.

Big Business Gamble Movie
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
Downs Industry Many Movie
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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

Face Feel Glass How
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This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

Else Oh Point Say
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When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

Dying Felt Finally Going
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The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

Being Boards Crew Discovery
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There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

About Forum Frequent Group
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Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

Animate Before Chocolate Complex
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

Bend Break Change Direct
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

Always Clothes Doing Felt
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On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

About Carpet Come Comfortable
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The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

Addressing Finger Interested Movies
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

Day End End Of The Day Go
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

About Always Attached Craving
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I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
Been Done Edgy Films
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

Acting Always Been Did
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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
Time Hunk Block Need
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

Future Vision Show Positive
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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

Season Series Close Movies
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Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.

Motion String Feature Office
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The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
Because Camera Digital Great
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