Male Movie Quotes

#1. There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.

Roger Ebert

#2. Who we listen to determines what we hear. Where we stand determines what we see. What we do determines who we are.

Robert McAfee Brown

#3. It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

Antony Gormley

#4. Who gave you a gun?'
'The army.'
'Why?'
'That's what the army does, Simon.

A. Ashley Straker

#5. In school we only learn to recognize the words and to spell but the application of these words to real life is another thing that only life and living can give us.

Truman Capote

#6. The greatest stories appeal to our deepest selves, the parts of us snobbery can't reach, the parts that connect the child to the adult and the brain to the heart and reality to dreams. Stories, at their essence, are enemies of snobbery. And a book snob is the enemy of the book.

Matt Haig

#7. With Hostel II I thought I had a very, very strong female audience so I'm going to make a movie that's going to appeal to them. The guys will love it, they'll have their moments. But there'll be a lot more male nudity in this one. I have a lot of sausage in this one!

Eli Roth

#8. The first movie my dad ever showed me was Predator - I was five. And I think the second one was Jaws. I've has this understanding of fiction for a very, very long time but I've also had this thing where I've idolized the male action heroes because that's what I watched with my dad.

Katee Sackhoff

#9. Peering at the crest, with its faded leopard couchant,

Diana Gabaldon

#10. Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.

Dan Groat

#11. The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.

Joel Silver

#12. My greatest passion is my personal life.

Blake Lively

#13. The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are ... so make up your own rules.

Neil Gaiman

#14. I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

Sandra Bullock

#15. We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#16. Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

Camille Paglia

#17. Creativity is a state of mind, a way of being, and it comes from a sacred place within.

Bonnie Kelso

#18. We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Gary Player

#19. There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

Kathryn Bigelow

#20. Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.

Jan De Bont

#21. Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

John Wayne

#22. I don't know if there's ever been a female-driven film or a male-driven film. I don't believe in that. I believe a film is a film - a movie can only work if everything about the film works.

Katrina Kaif

#23. In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

Paul Robeson

#24. It's difficult to make a movie about a complicated, non-traditional female character. We see a lot more movies with male characters who are at that point in their lives, but not that many about females.

Megan Griffiths

#25. I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.

Joan Collins

#26. Every young male actor dreams of being James Bond in an action movie. And that's their first role. But the truth is, when it comes down to it, that's not relatable.

Brendan Dooling

#27. It's generally sort of sociologically observed that the better educated people are, the more liberal they tend to be, which would suggest that professors are going to be more liberal than the general public.

Louis Menand

#28. Wine still tastes for me of the mountaintop of piny woods with a warm spring dawn coming on, and that Spanishy word, Sonoma, is an exotic flavor all to itself.

Fred Chappell