Top 100 Do Movies Quotes
#1. I'm an actor, I do movies, and I need to find somebody who enjoys that kind of stuff. It's not like, "Oh, I have my work time, and we go on a date, and it better be darn fun and exciting!" I think it should all coalesce a bit more.
James Franco
#2. I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.
Emma Roberts
#3. Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.
Faran Tahir
#4. I think it's just important to be always bouncing between TV and theater, and hopefully I'll get to do movies at some point.
Katie Lowes
#5. I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.
Kevin James
#6. I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
Steve Buscemi
#7. There have been movies like 'Paranormal Activity' or 'Blair Witch Project' in Hollywood that showed you could do movies with little or no money. It doesn't prevent them from creating larger than life spectacles as well.
Thomas Bangalter
#8. People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
Kassie DePaiva
#9. I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don't want to link up with some product.
Robin Williams
#10. I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2' than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'
Jonah Hill
#11. We don't do movies for the industry. We do movies for the fans, for the people. If the industry give you a trophy or not, or pat you on the back or not, it's nice, but it's not something you should dwell on.
Ice Cube
#12. It's fine to do movies and say, 'We made big grosses,' but you've got to go back and ask, 'How much did it cost?' and 'Where do you make your profit?'
Lee Rich
#13. I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.
Maddie Ziegler
#14. In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
Sean Penn
#15. Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'
AnnaLynne McCord
#16. The Cheers writers were the finest in television. But I felt like I was repeating myself; it bothered me a little bit. And I was getting movie offers, which made people think, "Oh, she's so snooty. She thinks she's going to do movies."
Shelley Long
#17. I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.
Chris Evans
#18. I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.
Melanie Laurent
#19. I'd rather do movies 'cause I am better at movies, but I do shows 'cause the opportunities have come forward.
Danny Masterson
#20. I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.
Woody Allen
#21. I came to 20th Century Fox to do movies, and then they started a network, and they asked me to do a show as part of their starting what became the Fox network.
James L. Brooks
#23. As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.
Brian Cox
#24. Why do fairy tales exist, and why do movies exist? Why do novels exist? There has to be a reason for it; otherwise, none of these things would be there.
Tim O'Brien
#26. There's always a moment in any stand-up show I do where people are booing. They kinda boo a premise. And then I bail myself out with a joke. But it's like trying to do movies where there's a dramatic undertone.
Chris Rock
#27. I think it does give me different stuff and I feel like television moves a lot faster than movie sets do. It's kinda like they have to get things done within a certain timeframe. So do movies but it seems like, as far as television is concerned, it just moves a helluva lot faster.
Ludacris
#28. And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
Halle Berry
#29. I want to do things that are very outside of the box, and I want to do movies that no one else can do. If someone else can make the movie that I'm making, then I shouldn't do it.
Darren Lynn Bousman
#30. I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.
Lee Daniels
#31. I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that'll be the new way.
Andy Warhol
#32. I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life in one way or another.
Lindsay Lohan
#33. I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
Al Pacino
#34. I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.
Jennifer Lopez
#35. I'm eager to do movies of different genres. I would love to not be confined by genre and do a lot of different things.
Jason Winer
#36. Writing keeps my mind occupied during the down time in my acting career. Even when I am working, there are times when I have multiple days off each week. Also, the writing allows me to 'do' movies that I would never do as an actor.
Conan Stevens
#37. I would love to do more TV and do movies for the experience, but my ultimate focus is stand-up. It's the number one thing that I love most because there is nothing like being with a live audience.
Michael Che
#39. There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
Barbara Kruger
#40. Our job, you know, in the entertainment profession is to try to illuminate and show people all sides of humanity, and it doesn't just mean that you can only do movies that are only about the good parts of us. You have to be able to eliminate the bad parts.
Kevin Spacey
#41. My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.
Channing Tatum
#43. I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.
Ansel Elgort
#44. If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.
Christopher Walken
#45. My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.
Ivan Reitman
#46. I make decisions to do movies based on the cast. I'd just been working with Zach [Galifianakis] on The Hangover, and I was thinking, I've got to find something to do with this guy immediately.
Todd Phillips
#47. I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.
Noomi Rapace
#48. I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going to do movies or TV? You couldn't cross over.
Shelley Long
#49. I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.
Dean Cain
#50. I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
Laura Osnes
#51. It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
Al Pacino
#52. I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place.
Tim McGraw
#53. My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.
Vanessa Hudgens
#54. I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.
David Chase
#55. When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.
Maggie Q
#56. And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
Harvey Fierstein
#57. The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.
Marlee Matlin
#58. You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors you want to work with, doing little movies. There are no guarantees. I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of, if it's my last one. That's how I think about it.
Robert Pattinson
#59. Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well.
Michael Keaton
#60. I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me.
Ali Larter
#61. Oh, yeah, I do movies; I forgot. They see them on TV. I forget that anybody knows me
Shannon Tweed
#62. Some people do piano lessons after school; I do movies.
Elle Fanning
#63. I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.
Salma Hayek
#64. I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.
Michael Vartan
#65. I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.'
Frankie Muniz
#66. I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
Madison Pettis
#67. After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.
Dino De Laurentiis
#68. The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really ... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.
Brooklyn Decker
#69. I can work every day of the year. TV is easy. My call's at 8:30 a.m. I'd like to break out of the comedy thing and take a shot at something serious like theater. The off-season allows me to do movies, but I'm not tired of TV yet. There's nothing like it. I've got the best of both worlds.
Scott Baio
#70. I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.
Lars Mikkelsen
#71. Aren't people supposed to do movies so that they can get girls?
Lucas Till
#72. Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
Gabriel Iglesias
#73. Personally, I do movies the way I cook. I put in what I like, in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.
Melvin Van Peebles
#74. As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'
Felicity Huffman
#75. I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.
Hayden Panettiere
#76. I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.
Demian Bichir
#77. I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.
Xavier Dolan
#78. I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.
Russell Peters
#79. I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.
Steve Coogan
#80. I've come to a point where I just want to do movies that I just believe in. I have come to an understanding of filmmaking, a new understanding where I believe it's a director's medium. That means working with people that I believe in.
James Franco
#81. I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.
Angie Harmon
#82. There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.
Ryan Phillippe
#83. I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.
Jason Lee
#84. I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
Sam Worthington
#85. I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.
Clint Eastwood
#86. You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.
Salma Hayek
#87. For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
Rachel True
#88. You know Marques Houston, you know I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, but I wouldn't want to do a movie that I'm a dancer and a singer in. I want to do movies that people can take me more seriously in as an actor, because when you're making that transition, it is tough.
Marques Houston
#90. I have always tried to work with first-time actors since my first movie. I always like to do movies with debutants.
Fedor Bondarchuk
#91. I sometimes can't do movies just for the money. I really can't. I mean, I've tried. Believe me, I'd love to just take the money and run.
Sam Rockwell
#92. When you do movies, it's you have a 3-month family and then everybody goes away and then joins another family, you know?
Ashton Kutcher
#93. I prefer to do movies, just for the simple fact that in TV, there's not much of a guarantee. They can pull the plug on you.
Vivica A. Fox
#94. Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.
Marilyn Manson
#95. I do feel good doing them [family-friendly movies], but it's not going to be my way of life. I'm a comedian.
Adam Sandler
#96. I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.
Anjelica Huston
#97. I like to think of my books and the movies of my books living in two separate universes. Each is very nice, but only one is correct - the book. But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the other versions, and I always do.
Meg Cabot
#98. I had hoped if this ever happened, they at least wouldn't run like they do in the new movies.
Rhiannon Frater
#99. I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.
Cary Fukunaga
#100. It's interesting to me; you do four, five or six of these Comic Cons or things like that across the country a year. Obviously, I get busted a lot of 'Weekend at Bernies,' but the fans for horror movies are so wonderful and so loyal.
Terry Kiser
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