Biopics Quotes

#1. One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their on-screen avatars.

Richard Corliss

#2. People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with that.

Chadwick Boseman

#3. A lot of biopics to me feel very much like someone is standing in front of the camera and is reading a Wikipedia page to you, like someone is reciting event. Did you know this happened? Did you know that happened? But Alan Turing's life deserved a sort of passionate film, and an exciting film.

Graham Moore

#4. I'm an absolute fan of Angela Bassett. I think she's a great, great actress. In the biopics, she is so moving. She's very rare. It's something that doesn't happen that much, to see an actress inventing a new way of showing 'woman' onscreen, and a new way of being beautiful.

Arnaud Desplechin

#5. I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.

Samantha Morton

#6. There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.

Vidya Balan

#7. If you get it right, it's the most grand thing you could ever do. So many people let biopics slip through their fingers, but the opportunity to play Eazy-E could change my life.

Jason Mitchell

#8. Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

Norman Ornstein

#9. Bloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof.

Roky Erickson

#10. God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. Corespawn it, Ren, you can't just go around cutting people's hands off!

Peter V. Brett

#12. Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.

Peace Pilgrim

#13. the inventors and company executives don't generally partake in their own creations. Thus the heavy reliance on focus groups with the targeted consumer.

Michael Moss

#14. There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

Pema Chodron

#15. One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.

Andre Breton

#16. I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.

Josef Koudelka

#17. The spiritual experience isn't one of filling ourselves up - with either religious or intellectual beliefs - but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.

Kevin Griffin