Motion Picture Industry Quotes

#1. I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.

Spencer Johnson

#2. I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

Hattie McDaniel

#3. So it can be seen that the trouble with the motion picture art was (and is) that it is too much an industry; and the trouble with the motion picture industry is that it is too much an art. It is out of this basic contradiction that most of the ills of the form arise.

Garson Kanin

#4. My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.

Matthew Specktor

#5. I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

Lenny Bruce

#6. I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.

Kurt Russell

#7. There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

Mark Rydell

#8. I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

Conrad Veidt

#9. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.

Dalton Trumbo

#10. Miss Fairfield," he said quietly, "I am not your enemy. Stop treating me as one." Her heart slammed in her breast. "I have no enemies." "That, Miss Fairfield, is bollocks, and you know it. You have only enemies.

Courtney Milan

#11. We were created to be woman and man and make kids.

Juan Pablo Galavis

#12. Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.

Tommy Tenney

#13. Familiarity breeds liking.

Daniel Kahneman

#14. Honeymooners? Well, that was just a big flip of the middle finger to the sanctity of marriage, wasn't it?

Abby Niles

#15. I've seen more trouble come from long engagements than from any other forms of human folly.

Virginia Woolf

#16. The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

J.K. Rowling

#17. I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

Peter Fonda

#18. What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.

Isobelle Carmody

#19. I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be.

Dan Wheldon

#20. Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

Henry Rollins

#21. Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace the goal of a discrimination-free society with the quite imcompatible goal of proportionate representation by race and by sex in the workplace.

Antonin Scalia

#22. No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?

John Green

#23. In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

Leonard Ravenhill