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"397 Movie Quotes

And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.

Actor All Time As Far As Far
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I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

About Anything Anywhere Funny
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I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.

Because Big BigFan Doing
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

Able Acting Actor Director
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

Actor Again Always Form
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Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

Able Acting Actually Creative
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
Been Christmas Hood Movie
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
Always Been Given Movie
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

Acting Actor How Idea
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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

Actor Hire Make Real
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

Central Did Enough Grew
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Audio Cinema Familiar Future
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I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

About Across America Behind
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You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

Actor Been Better Bigger
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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

About American Bad Bad Guys
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The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

Am England Excellent Green
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

Dracula Her See Take
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The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

Even Everything Screen Thinking
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.

Beginning Irresistible Will You
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom Price
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Between Certain Certain Things Characters
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

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Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

All The Facts Because Character Circumstances
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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.

Always Be Different Behind Dialogue
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I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.

Crap Cut Got Movie
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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Any Because Closeness Does
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

Acting Adolescence Behind Best
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I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

Roles Genres Able Films
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The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Shame Divide Celebrate Film
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I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.

Able Choice Film Gone
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I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Am Celebrities Hollywood I Am
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I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.
Blood Gore Halloween I Love
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Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

About Actor Actress Arms
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The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.

Cities Common Different Great
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Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

Anywhere Cinema Hollywood Medium
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Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

Everything Personal Made Movie
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I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Dependent Business Living Movies
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I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Wanted Write Direct Movies
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I want to do films and have my name mentioned next to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. I don't want my name mentioned next to other rappers at all.

Anderson Films Mentioned Name
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When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered

Great Life Movie Egotisticala
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“Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.”

Even Make Film Sole
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The biggest problems with movies are expectations.
Biggest Expectations Movies Problems
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The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Hold Many Odyssey Story
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For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
Cinema Face Human Human Face
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

Awful Become Cry Films
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.

Always Appreciated Brutality Doubt
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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

Anyone Been Discuss Done
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I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.

About Bogart Ever Films
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Most times people never know what we go through to achieve what you see on the screen.
Times People Go-through Achieve
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I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

Animated Broadway Came Coming
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