The Beach Film Quotes

#1. It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie.

John Robinson

#2. If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total
depression.

Peter Drucker

#3. I got to play a brain-dead comatose rapist who wakes up every full moon to cause hell in the small cult film: Coma Man From Manhattan Beach.

Justin Bog

#4. My nipples tightened as I breathed in his musky scent mixed with cologne. I didn't recognize the brand, but it spoke to something inside me. It whispered come closer, and my heart pounded harder.

Lori Toland

#5. I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.

John Kennedy Toole

#6. Now I'm the father of three young boys, I find myself using GoPro to film them more than anything - trips to the amusement park, the beach, the pool - just chasing them around as they grow.

Nick Woodman

#7. The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.

Hakan Nesser

#8. The birthday party was me and her, a whore friend of hers and her pimp, and the cake.

Diane Arbus

#9. I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak.

Murray Bartlett

#10. Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

Ernie Harwell

#11. With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of emotion and really invest myself in the character.

Jack Reynor

#12. I think I need to film something tropical on a beach in a bar.

Richard Madden

#13. In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.

Garry Marshall

#14. The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

John Cusack

#15. We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'

Mick Cornett

#16. Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It ain't for the beaches, I can tell you.

Greg Gutfeld

#17. My life edges out any sense of sanity I can have, and I come to realize there won't be a point where things can be ordinary again, or as ordinary as I would have them.

Thomm Quackenbush

#18. I grew up in Los Angeles. I still remember when I was a junior in high school studying for the SATs. I had my job - I was actually a production assistant on a film - but on weekends, I would finish my prep tests on the beach.

Cody Horn

#19. The election process is a total fraud. If voters believe the process is secret, they will vote. If not, they will not.

Riordan Roett

#20. I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

Danny Boyle

#21. I was reminded again that there are so many things we need that can also hurt us: cars, knives, grown-ups.

Lena Dunham

#22. In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language, they don't go to the place they need to go to make the sound.

Elena Roger

#23. Ideology is a straight-edge ruler in a fractal universe.

Marilynne Robinson

#24. I always look for nature or natural lighting within buildings and within rooms that has been done by somebody else to suit their needs. I look at it very closely as a photographic thing, then enhance it.

Wolfgang Petersen

#25. A not 100-percent-perfect-looking-in-every-way female? You might as well film a dead squid decaying on a beach somewhere for two hours.

Mindy Kaling

#26. James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#27. With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.

Adam Beach

#28. I'll go to do a shoot, I'll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I'm all out of film, then they really relax and I get my good pictures.

Jock Sturges

#29. I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books.

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#30. I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

Adam Beach