Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old movies quotes, movies sayings, and movies proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
I've always had a nightmare: I dream that one of my pictures has ended up in an art theater, and I wake up shaking.
Walt Disney
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The only way to make a good film is to know nothing about film making.Jean Cocteau
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I can't imagine anything more boring than watching yourself on the screen.Ethel Barrymore
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Nothing will kill the movies, except education.Will Rogers
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In ancient times a pharaoh could maintain a good-sized empire on what it costs to make the movie about it today.Bill Vaughan
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Why pay to go see a bad movie when you can watch television and see a bad one for nothing?Evan Esar
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Some of today's films are so long that it takes less time to read the book.Evan Esar
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Some movies are so bad that they have to be seen to be depreciated.
Evan Esar
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A critic seldom realizes how good the book is until after he sees the movie.Evan Esar
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The only bright thing about some movies is the electric sign in front of the theater.Evan Esar
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TV won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.Darryl Zanuck
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Half of the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.Lionel Barrymore
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People tell me that the movies should be more like real life. I disagree. It is real life that should be more like the movies.Walter Winchell
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My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.Mort Sahl
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Never judge a book by its movie.J.W. Eagan
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They didn't release that movie; it escaped.Samuel Goldwyn
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There's no thief like a bad movie.Sam Ewing
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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.Samuel Goldwyn
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What your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies. All of life's riddles are answered in the movies.Steve Martin
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Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.Dennis Quaid
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Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.Tim Burton
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I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.Francis Ford Coppola
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I make movies I want to see.Neil LaBute
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We are the movies and the movies are us.David Ansen
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If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.Carol Alt
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Like a kung fu movie, we are leaping and kicking and fighting on all fronts.Rosemary Brown
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It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
Mary Pickford
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If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.Norman McLaren
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Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.Roman Polanski
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I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.Wilson Mizner