Favorite Film Quotes

#1. Nooooooo ... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!

Sylvia Sidney

#2. I don't know what my favorite film of mine is ... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.

Morgan Freeman

#3. I love Keri Russell. I watched every episode of Felicity, and Waitress is my favorite film. I like her voice a lot - it didn't surprise me that she would be doing voiceover work.

Virginia Madsen

#4. Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

Douglas Wood

#5. I think my favorite film of all time has to be 'The Illusionist' by Sylvain Chomet. Beautiful plot, beautiful story. You know, not much happens, but it's beautiful. And when I was young, 'The Triplets of Belleville' was one of my favorite movies. I liked his style a lot.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

#6. My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

Lloyd Kaufman

#7. It has to be 'The Piano' by Jane Campion. It inspired me to pursue my dream to direct. It is not just my favorite woman-directed film - it is my favorite film.

Sarah Gavron

#8. I don't think I've made my favorite film yet. But I loved 'Bamboozled.' 'Bamboozled' to me is off the chain. It's definitely in the ranking. I loved 'Bamboozled.'

Jada Pinkett Smith

#9. My favorite film score is the one Thomas Bangalter created for 'Irreversible.' The soundtrack absolutely defines the daymare-into-nightmare feeling you get from the film.

Richard Phillips

#10. My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.

Terence Stamp

#11. I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film.

Tommy Kirk

#12. My favorite film involving scarves was little Edie in 'Grey Gardens.' I often wear scarves like that, under hats.

Estelle

#13. When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.

Rain

#14. My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film that I saw that was actually directed by a woman.

Chris Hegedus

#15. I don't look back, no. Maybe when I'm older; people say, 'What's your favorite film?' I say, 'My next one.' I'm not interested in sitting around; I just don't, never have.

Denzel Washington

#16. There are films that I don't like, and then someone will come up to me and say it's their favorite movie. The movies belong to the people. You make them and you put them out. For me, I love the process of making films. For me, my favorite film is always my next one.

Denzel Washington

#17. A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.

Seth Gordon

#18. People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Johnathon Schaech

#19. I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

Brendan Fraser

#20. I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

John Waters

#21. I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.

Evangeline Lilly

#22. My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Alan Arkin

#23. It seems like they make every comic book into a film. 'Watchmen' is my favorite of all time.

William Moseley

#24. I've never had my own accent in a film. It's something I schedule into my preparation. That's one of my favorite things, hearing all the voices.

Andrea Riseborough

#25. When I'm challenged, I grow. I never want to be in a situation where I'm not challenged and not afraid. One of my favorite feelings is stepping into a film and knowing that I'm a little bit afraid of what I have to accomplish.

Nikki Reed

#26. My favorite movie of all time is probably 'The Thing Called Love.' It's a formulaic film but it's got River Phoenix, who is like a god to me. I could watch that once a week.

Shiloh Fernandez

#27. When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. It was taken on the little patio of her Hollywood house.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

#28. To me, still my favorite 3D film is 'Dial M for Murder.' I thought that was great. Hitchcock used it, could put you in the room, which I thought was fantastic, but I'm still not a devotee of 3D.

Joe Carnahan

#29. One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

Michael Arndt

#30. When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

John Woo

#31. My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Carrie Fisher

#32. There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.

Ryan Gosling

#33. The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

Robert Wise

#34. I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,' the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.

Lily Cole

#35. My all-time favorite is Brad Pitt in 'Interview with the Vampire.' He's so sexy. I'm a fan of anything he does, but in that film he's a vampire who doesn't want to feed. There's something super sexy about someone who has to feed to survive but doesn't want to do it.

Kayla Ewell

#36. I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one.

Alan Arkin

#37. When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

David Chase

#38. I would say that my favorite action film is the 'Die Hard's. They're kind of perfect, I think.

Michael Angarano

#39. I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Robin Hood.'

Jonathan Jackson

#40. I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

Jamie Bell

#41. Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

Shane Carruth

#42. I wanted to go back on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I did it. One of my favorite shows is 'Hawaii Five-0.' I went on, guest starred. I wanted to be in a film, did 'Tasmanian Devils' in Vancouver. Wanted to host a show, boom, did it.

Apolo Ohno

#43. There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.

Jonny Greenwood

#44. Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made.

Jackie Chan

#45. The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.

Joyce Rachelle

#46. You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

Les Claypool

#47. 'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.

Odette Annable

#48. Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I put in theaters. That's my directors cut, there's no question about it.

Fede Alvarez

#49. I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them.

Peter Cushing

#50. I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

Don Cheadle

#51. My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas.

Ben Mendelsohn

#52. A lot of cinematic influences on 'Descender' - Kubrick for sure. '2001: A Space Odyssey' is my favorite movie. It has been since I was 12. I just love that film.

Jeff Lemire

#53. I think that one of my favorite movie roles has been a film that I did with Jason Statham that was out last year called 'Safe.' I played the main bad guy in that.

Reggie Lee

#54. I loved 'Junebug.' It was one of my favorite films, my favorite type of film.

Justin Long

#55. My favorite part of the film business is the research part, with the access we get from people who are excited to be involved and the things we get to see and do, which we're not normally going to get in everyday life.

Jason Clarke

#56. I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

Denis Leary

#57. One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

Linda Cardellini

#58. 'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.

Mara Wilson

#59. The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years.

Keegan Allen

#60. The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

Win Butler

#61. That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.

Diablo Cody

#62. As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.

Johnny Ramone

#63. 'Deep Red' (1975) is my favorite movie. The character David Hemmings plays is very much based on my own personality. It was a very strong film, very brutal, and of course the censors were upset. It was cut by almost an hour in some countries.

Dario Argento

#64. 'Up' was the best. The first 10 minutes of that movie made me weep. It was so well done ... even if that montage was all I'd seen, just as a short film, that was great. That was my favorite thing of the year.

Charlyne Yi

#65. My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

Jay Roach

#66. My absolute favorite song I've ever written is "This Is Where We Came In." It's a nudge at younger listeners, cause at one time you could go into a cinema halfway through a film and then stay through and pick up where you left off.

James Hunter

#67. I've always been really into action movies. Since I was little, that was my favorite type of film.

Austin Butler

#68. If I was ever gonna remake a Peckinpah film, it would be 'Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia.' That's my favorite Peckinpah film.

Joe Carnahan