Top 100 Quotes About Popcorn
#1. In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.
Michio Kaku
#2. I was used to watching this on a comfy couch with bowls of popcorn and family commentary.
Kiera Cass
#3. I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.
David Lynch
#4. Get your popcorn ready, 'cause I'm gonna put on a show.
Terrell Owens
#5. I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
Oliver Stone
#6. Gazzy: "What does that mean?" (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!)
Fang: "It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn.
James Patterson
#7. Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.
Faith Popcorn
#8. [Depression is] like combating the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with a handful of popcorn. But that handful of popcorn keeps you going. There is no sense in going on, there is no sense in any of those things, but thank God one does not live by reason alone.
James Tiptree Jr.
#9. According to trend guru Faith Popcorn, change is happening exponentially faster than it ever has.
Dave Oakes
#10. Three days ago we not only ruled the earth, we had survivor's guilt about all the other species we'd wiped out on our climb to the nirvana of round-the-clock cable news and microwave popcorn. Now we're the Flashlight People.
Stephen King
#11. To this day the smell of fresh popcorn causes me to experience stress, hunger, and sketch ideas for John Goodman.
Tina Fey
#12. I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.
Don Cheadle
#14. The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
W.C. Fields
#15. You're the guy who saves up his pennies to take me to a movie," she said, shaking her head as the truth of it came home to her. "I buy the popcorn. Large, of course, because I'm rich.
Michael Grant
#16. I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.
Kirsten Dunst
#17. Nothing picks me up quicker than a movie, a Coca-Cola, and a box of popcorn. I could walk in feeling like I didn't want to live anymore, and walk out on cloud nine.
Rebecca Wells
#18. If it's a choice between spending twenty five dollars for tickets to a movie and almost that much again for drinks and popcorn, it's understandable that people are opting to buy a movie on DVD for fifteen dollars, even if it's no-frills.
Tim Lucas
#19. When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.
Lawrence Taylor
#20. I've never met a popcorn ball I didn't like.
Deb Caletti
#21. Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.
Fran Kranz
#24. She was thirty-two years old; it was a Friday night; and she was in a hoodie, eating popcorn and cereal, reading about brain trauma, and hate-watching hockey.
Ruby Lang
#25. It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses.
Estella Warren
#26. Popcorn is one of the only situations in which you eat the result of an explosion.
Demetri Martin
#27. I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.
William Shatner
#28. You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.
Faith Popcorn
#29. Kat, who sat beside us, shouted, "Rewind that!" and threw popcorn at the screen. "Mr. Holland's expression was all, like, oh, no, I'm going to need to my balls reattached, and Cole's was all, you're about to lose something else, sucka.
Gena Showalter
#30. Hey!" Dawson yelled from the front door. "I think Dee caught the microwave on fire. Again. And I tried popping some popcorn with my hands and it kind of went wrong. Like really, really wrong."
Daemon pressed his forehead against mine and growled. "Dammit.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#31. Happy ending roll credits
pick our way out, over
crushed pieces of popcorn
to emerge
into the glaring light of day
Kelly Bingham
#32. I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.
Carrie Underwood
#33. A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.
Elia Suleiman
#34. This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.
Faith Popcorn
#35. Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.
James Wolcott
#36. If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.
Roland Joffe
#37. Popcorn is American. Nobody but the Indians ever had popcorn, till after the Pilgrim Fathers came to America. On
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#38. Im a popcorn fanatic. No matter how full I am, I can eat popcorn.
Julianne Phillips
#39. You want to start some shit, boy? Let's go outside. (Devyn)
Oh, good. I'm just in time for another round of Grand Testosterone Overdose. Ooooh, Alix, Claira ... anyone got popcorn? Or maybe I should get Taryn? Then we could insult his manhood and watch him pop a gasket, too. (Zarina)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#40. Rap music ... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.
Tom Robbins
#41. Be neither attracted nor repulsed. You are watching a movie. If the visions are beautiful or horrible, Don't get caught up in them. Enjoy your popcorn.
Frederick Lenz
#42. If the vision is there, the means will follow.
Faith Popcorn
#43. I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember as a child sitting around with the family on a Friday night with pizza and popcorn and a 'Die Hard' movie on.
Jai Courtney
#44. With all the horror in the world and all the crap that's going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That's what a movie is all about.
Michael Rosenbaum
#45. Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner - I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything.
Helen Mirren
#46. There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom.
Emmitt Smith
#47. I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.
Mike Ditka
#48. Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.
Faith Popcorn
#49. In everyday life I am quiet and reserved, not the housekeeper type but cool and relaxed. I don't get up in the morning wearing false eyelashes and I don't wear fancy underwear when I'm cooking popcorn. I'm a nice little ducky.
Madonna Ciccone
#50. Somewhere behind them, Nike yelled, Try harder! That popcorn was not fatal!
Rick Riordan
#51. I shoveled popcorn into my mouth, watching him instead of the posters.
Kylie Scott
#52. Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
Fulton J. Sheen
#54. The first time the three of us went to the movies together, he waited until you went to get popcorn, and then he said, "You don't mind, do you?" And I'd been so moved that he'd asked, that he wanted my permission.
David Levithan
#55. Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.
Faith Popcorn
#56. Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.
Faith Popcorn
#57. Others may prefer mindless entertainment, but on Sunday nights, you'll find me parked right in front of my television, munching popcorn and improving my intellect by watching 'Masterpiece Classic.'
Teresa Medeiros
#58. Look at that eye-candy you literally have right out your window. Why aren't you glued to this plate of glass, eating popcorn and posting Instagram photos?
J.L. Berg
#59. I'm not going to sit at home and eat popcorn,
Allen West
#60. If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.
Ayelet Waldman
#61. I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
Jodie Foster
#62. I should have known he and I weren't going to make it when for my seventeenth birthday he gave me a box of microwave popcorn and a used battery tester. You know, to test batteries before I put them in my Walkman. Like you give someone when you're in love.
Tina Fey
#63. We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.
Emma McLaughlin
#64. Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.
Faith Popcorn
#65. Forty-five years, these people were provided for. Not with much, you understand, but there weren't beggars in the streets or homeless people. Now everyone must figure out a new way to make a living. Selling hats or popcorn or flowers or coffee, there's not much difference. They're scared.
Annie Ward
#66. I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
Bill Nye
#67. Anthony watched him, dumbfounded, and then turned to Lucy. "What have you done with Zack's brain?"
Lucy stood to follow Zack. "What brain? I don't think he has one. I think he's just one giant exposed nerve ending. I swear sometimes at night, I can hear his neurons snapping like popcorn.
Jennifer Crusie
#68. Filth!' Ignatious shouted, spewing wet popcorn over rows. 'How dare she pretend to be a virgin. Look at her degenerate face. Rape her!
John Kennedy Toole
#69. We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.
Orville Redenbacher
#70. The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.
Saul Bellow
#71. Sometimes I work upstairs projecting the movies, and the rest of the time I'm just selling tickets or popcorn.
Kyle Parker
#72. Regardless of the delivery method, your Higher Mind will leave you a trail of popcorn. It's been happening all along, even if you've been unaware, trampling it underfoot. It may only be one kernel at a time, but that's all you really need.
Debbianne DeRose
#73. It was impossible. It was like something out of The Matrix. I don't know what-all sounds were involved, but my spouse says she hurried in and there was popcorn all over the couch and I was down on one knee and my eyeballs looked like novelty-shop eyeballs.
David Foster Wallace
#74. That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.
Garth Brooks
#75. I don't really drink sodas, but when I have popcorn or pizza I need a little. It's the perfect combination.
Alessandra Ambrosio
#76. What I remember about that experience is that if you went to go see ' Born On The Fourth Of July' and you happened to take a bathroom break real quick or grab some popcorn, you probably missed me. It was short, but it was memorable.
Vivica A. Fox
#77. You people came to America, you take our sugar cane, potatoes, and corn, then you sell us potato chips and caramel popcorn, and we're the ones who get sick.
Neil Gaiman
#78. A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners.
Kevin Myers
#79. The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods.
Peter Travers
#80. What if I was the sexual equivalent of popcorn? Suitable for light snacking only?
Rachel Vincent
#81. Whoa, what is this? Battle of the Sarcastic and Pissed? Should I make popcorn? Forget American Idol, man. This is much more entertaining. (Kish)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#82. Claire put scientifically enhanced popcorn in the microwave oven. "I never feel like I'm putting food in one of these things," she then says, entering with beeps, the time-set into the LED. "It feels more like I'm inserting fuel rods into a core.
Douglas Coupland
#83. When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.
Jerry Coleman
#84. Popcorn, chocolate, coffee, ice cream, and pizza. The five food groups. Health nuts are going to feel stupid one day, dying of nothing.
Kelly Moran
#85. When you go watch "The Lord Of The Rings," you don't just buy a bag of popcorn, and go sit in the movie theater to watch where covetous people in our hearts deceive us, and then walk out the theater. That's the message that may be in that movie.
LeCrae
#86. Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.
Faith Popcorn
#87. Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
Gavin Hood
#88. Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing.
Mel Gibson
#89. The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.
Cameron Diaz
#90. Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.
Frederick Lenz
#91. I'd get off the train at Penn Station, breathe in the smell of urine, popcorn, and dirt, and feel like I was coming home.
Jennifer Close
#92. To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.
Faith Popcorn
#93. There hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#94. He was a beefy man with fluffy popcorn hair, white shirt, and dark green chinos.
Stephen King
#95. This seems headed into girl-fight territory," Tod said. "Should I make popcorn?
Rachel Vincent
#96. We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
Orville Redenbacher
#97. Whenever they say it can't be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.
John Mayer
#98. When I found out I was going to be on CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I'd lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies.
Gayle King
#99. 'Antiques Roadshow' is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, 'Don't bother me.'
Lara Spencer
#100. She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.
Jack Kerouac
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