Top 100 Big Screen Quotes
#1. I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?
Noel Clarke
#2. One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.
Gail Collins
#3. I relate more to the fact that 80-inch plasma has just started to become ubiquitous and in people's homes the fairly decent 5.1 sound system and the big screen isn't that out of reach.
Michael Mann
#4. Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together.
Thomas Dolby
#5. No one had ever made it big from my town until I was able to make it to the NFL and now the big screen. The journey from my town to where I am now has taught me how to be resilient and fearless, and for that I will forever be grateful.
Thomas Jones
#6. A movie playing on the TV screen in front of us. Some sort of bad Tom Cruise drama. I've never liked Tom Cruise. He always reminded me of someone's creepy cousin, who smiles too big before he touches your butt and whispers something gross in your ear with hot whiskey breath.
Erin McCarthy
#7. If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
Dana Brunetti
#8. People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
Salman Khan
#9. My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
Tate Donovan
#10. I will personally never ever get over the communal experience of theatrical cinema. I will never get over the scale of a big screen in relation to your small body, big sounds in a big room with a bunch of other people.
Liza Johnson
#11. For actors, we always feel like there shouldn't be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates the idea that if you're such-and-such an actor, you can't be on the big screen.
Scott Bakula
#12. I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.
Frankie Avalon
#13. Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
Regina Brett
#14. The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.
Billy Bob Thornton
#15. I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.
Andy Garcia
#16. I can safely say that there are dozens of places on 'Titania' to watch a film with friends. I would estimate there's something like 50 televisions on board, some of which are very big-screen, some of which drop out of ceilings on the outdoor decks.
John Caudwell
#17. You could have the biggest screen, you could have the clearest screen. But if there is not great content on this thing, that big-screen TV is not a huge value to you, even though it has the best picture on the planet.
Brian Krzanich
#18. Books are good, and I read my share, and TV's okay if you're stuck in a motel room during a rainstorm, but for Jamie Morton, there was nothing like a movie up there on the big screen.
Stephen King
#19. I guess that's one of the benefits of being sick. Your wife lets you have a big-screen TV in the living room.
Fred DeLuca
#20. I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.
Harrison Ford
#21. Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.
Pete Postlethwaite
#22. I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"
Steven Soderbergh
#23. I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
LaToya London
#24. My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
Jackie Chan
#25. On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.
Mike Tyson
#26. I've never vied for power in the family before. Pointing a box at the garage door and saying "Open!" was never a big deal, but holding that television tuner and realizing I alone control what is flashed on the screen brings out the Iacocca in me.
Erma Bombeck
#27. Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.
Timothy Olyphant
#28. I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.
Michael Moore
#29. They seemed as unreal as actors when you saw them on a movie screen. They were big up there - often beautiful, too - but they were still only shadows thrown by light.
Stephen King
#30. You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing.
Hans Zimmer
#31. Sure, and that's the cool thing about DVD: you can pack stuff on the disc that would've been too much for the big screen because actually it would've only interested yourself and a bunch of fanboys, who wanna know everything.
Quentin Tarantino
#32. For the first time the people of Iraq are united. Today on CNN I saw a Kurd, a Shiite and a member of the Republican Guard coming together to cart off a big screen TV.
Jay Leno
#33. Under a pulsating full moon, the gussied-up Billie Jean King National Tennis Center seems much softer and prettier at night, with the fountains bubbling and fans without tickets to the big stadium sitting in the plaza and watching a big screen.
George Vecsey
#34. Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
Roald Dahl
#35. There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.
George Clooney
#36. I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.
Sheridan Smith
#37. When you put a big budget into a film, it doesn't necessarily mean it will be a better picture, but it does help in creating new images on the screen.
Ray Harryhausen
#38. I want to inspire people with my work, whether I'll be dancing, acting, on the big screen, or in the production room.
Vivian Nixon
#39. Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.
Dustin Clare
#40. Sometimes what works in a book is too "in your face" when converted to the big screen and sound.
James Dashner
#41. The chemistry and the comfort and trust between two people playing a love story l is key, and to have a friend that I could trust, and whose sensibilities I already understood, made it so much easier, and is a big part of why it all looks natural on screen.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#42. The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.
Colin Baker
#43. Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing.
Mel Gibson
#44. One of the most visually beautiful movies you can see on the big screen.
Ty Burr
#45. I think that Spider-Man is a part of our culture. He's a perennial character. He's something that's constantly reexamined and there are so many versions of him in the comics that it was something that I thought that we could do cinematically. He belongs on the big screen.
Marc Webb
#46. There's nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It's like when you go to the cinema - the first two or three minutes of any film are amazing. Because the screen is so big. The scale. Directors can pretty much do anything for those first few minutes.
Jonny Greenwood
#47. I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.
Jesse L. Martin
#48. To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
Billy Collins
#49. To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
Carine Roitfeld
#50. I'm most comfortable with my computer. Yes, I have an iPhone, but I've reached that point now where to read e-mails on my phone, I need my reading glasses. I'm most comfortable with the big-screen computer.
George Takei
#51. No, actually I'm trying to stay away from the big screen.
Brent Spiner
#52. I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.
Martin Parr
#53. If he were on fire, he couldn't act as if he were burning. He can't out-act me on the big screen.
Shaquille O'Neal
#54. With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight.
Alfred Gough
#55. When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.
George A. Romero
#56. I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.
Seann William Scott
#57. I don't see a difference between the big screen and the small one. We are entertainers, and the medium doesn't matter.
Genelia D'Souza
#58. I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York - New York helped give me my first big break.
Natalie Dormer
#59. I love female heroes too and would love to bring many more to the big screen in the future.
Kevin Feige
#60. Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone.
Asif Kapadia
#62. On screen, we have to pretend we hate each other, or dislike each other, or don't want to talk or listen to each other, but off camera, it's just one big happy family. We hang out off the show and we play cards together and go have dinner together.
Emilio Rivera
#63. My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.
Wendy Liebman
#64. It's important to look at the big picture of life, as long as it's not through a small screen
Benny Bellamacina
#65. I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.
Andrew Lau
#66. Whether you come back by page or on the big screen, Hogwarts wll always be there to welcome you hoome.
J.K. Rowling
#67. A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.
Mark Wahlberg
#68. You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.
Howard Hawks
#69. I watch a lot of Turner Classic movies. But I don't do private screenings. I don't have the old school, reel to reel projectors. I do have a big screen TV, though.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#70. The only thing I can say is that people requested,when The Exorcist it going to be on the big screen? People want it on the big screen and they want to see the footage. I think it's going to do very well. I think it will please people, and the fact that they added the new sound.
Linda Blair
#71. Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.
Grant Morrison
#72. We want to make movies for the big screen. We want people to go to the theater and feel like they're watching a movie.
Asif Kapadia
#73. I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.
Chloe Sevigny
#75. Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least.
Mort Crim
#76. I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.
Keith Stanfield
#77. I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.
Sergio Aragones
#78. In order for us to deliver this we have to integrate the big-screen capability, the PC capability, and the Internet experience. This is a combination of hardware and software that delivers a new media experience.
Paul Otellini
#79. I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.
Ira Sachs
#80. For 82 minutes, 'The Little Mermaid' reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into enchantment. Live-action filmmakers, see this and try to top it. Go on and try.
Richard Corliss
#81. The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.
Chris Pine
#82. I have a house, with two big plasma-screen TVs, two dogs, a grill, chessboard. I like to keep it low-key: invite friends over, order some Papa John's pizzas and Coors Light, play poker and ping-pong and chill. I'm pretty private.
Jared Padalecki
#83. I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.
Anne Rice
#84. The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
David Lynch
#85. I wouldn't mind doing my own film on the big screen. That'd be cool.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#86. Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.
Christine Vachon
#87. I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.
Joe Dante
#88. You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
Gary David Goldberg
#89. Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen.
Daniel Wu
#90. When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen.
Gillian Armstrong
#91. I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America's greatest screen actor.
Jamie Sives
#92. The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.
Fernando Perez
#93. I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#94. Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have fun and enjoy what is on the screen, and we have moments where we're actually happy.
Aldis Hodge
#95. I draft on the computer. I have a really giant screen that attaches to my laptop, and then I have a humongous digital drawing tablet called a Cintiq. It sits at all different angles, and it's so big that it would take two people to move it.
Jeff Kinney
#96. There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.
Kenneth Lonergan
#97. Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs
Jim Rohn
#98. TV actors are doing great in Bollywood. We have our own market, our own fans, who love to see us on the big screen.
Mona Singh
#100. Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.
Hoda Kotb
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