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"397 Movie Quotes

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

Adapting Been Character Has-Been
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America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.
America Best Could Did
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Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines.

Any Auditions Magazines Posted
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I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.
Disney Film Original Signed
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I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.

Back Forward Getting Grateful
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Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.

Audition Front Simon Want
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The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.

Auditions Go Learn More
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You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

Director Experiences Just Know
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If my film makes one, just one person satisfied, then I’ll feel I’ve done my job.
My film Makes one Satisfied Done
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I was very happy to learn Oliver Stone had decided to make a film about Edward Snowden and believe this is a powerful and inspiring film.

About Believe Decided Edward
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Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.

Someone looks Acts differently Ugly
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I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

About Amazing Awesome Being
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The problem today is that our youths don’t want to learn or work without pay. That is why it will be very difficult for some of them to make the type of films we are making. If they only think about money, they won’t make a headway.

Problem today Youth Learn Pay
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One movie production can travel the world and change Nigeria’s perception in the world.

One movie Travel World Perception
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I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey.

Anyone Great GreatTime IThink
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I think my craziest Hollywood moment was performing at the Grammys with Stevie Wonder.

Craziest Grammys Hollywood I Think
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

An actor Playwright Hole
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I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

Acting Anybody Brando Christ
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

Biggest Characters Essentially Movie
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There is no legitimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

Legitimate actor Powerful Movies
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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Hollywood Marriage Milk Outlast
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I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

Cult Favorites Go Knack
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We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.
Best Movies Relate Thing
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If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

Boy Girl Walk off Sunset
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'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

Fun Exciting Inspirational People respond
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Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated .

Making Film Sieve Element
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A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

Special effect Telling story Pretty boring
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It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

Hard work Movies Long hours Emotional
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Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

Changes Unusual Movies Release them
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I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

Giant proponent Movies Seen Phones
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Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

Football games Stadium attendance Movie
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There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Movies People Diversion World
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There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.

Difference Movie Television Cases
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I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.

Follower Silent movies Visual medium
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Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

Film Tight Little box Gone
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One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

One thing Proud Expands Imagination
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The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

Trouble Movie Released Accident
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.

Movie Production Greatest train
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Opinion Two things Realistic Sexual act
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I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Actor After Again Answer
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It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.

Been Ever Fact Just
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My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

About Decent Director Feeling
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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

Actor Been Being Creator
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I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

Demands Ending Just Know
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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Got offered Romantic leads Role
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What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.

What looks Absolutely fabulous Rehearsal Audience
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

Times Take role Perceived Certain way
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Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Theater Resonate Heart Movie
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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

Movies Plot Story heavy
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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Movies Plot Theater Ideas
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