Top Movies Quotes

#1. When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

John Slattery

#2. If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

Samuel Johnson

#3. I've taken a lot of time to build up the name Flavor Flav, but this could come tumbling down in 30 seconds. If you want to keep what you worked for hard all your life, then you got to do the right thing in your life.

Flavor Flav

#4. A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background.

Giorgio Moroder

#5. In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

Carrot Top

#6. If you're trying to cast the widest possible net to attract the largest selection of men or women, the last thing you should do is to start listing your income, political views, and the like. Avoid mentioning specific comedians, shows, or movies unless those are top-tier attributes on your list.

Amy Webb

#7. My name is Rachel Morgan," Al said, mimicking my voice perfectly. "I like black panties, action movies, and being on top.

Kim Harrison

#8. If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

#9. I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.

Nicolas Cage

#10. I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

Sally Phillips

#11. I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.

Isaac Hayes

#12. Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

Peter Bart

#13. 'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama.

Mark Duplass

#14. I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

Mamie Van Doren

#15. When I start doing movies, that'll be the time to pack Vine in. Quit when you're on top. Be the king.

King Bach

#16. The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.'
One movie features gruesome onscreen torture that is difficult to watch and the other is about a guy with a saw.

Conan O'Brien

#17. Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?

Carrot Top

#18. There are a handful of talented individuals that are always going to do a better job. If you look at the amount of TV shows or movies, there's only a handful that rise to the top.

Chad Hurley

#19. My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed ... It is not even possible to make a caricature of an evolution out of paleobiological facts ... The idea of an evolution rests on pure belief.

Nils Heribert-Nilsson

#20. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity - our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees.

Michael Crichton

#21. There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or top prizewinners. I call this internal mechanism my Built-In Hit Detector.

Richard Corliss

#22. If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.

Christine Baranski

#23. Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if one is being truthful, the greater pain is that of the offender. I know now that I would much rather be a victim of violence than a perpetrator

Frank Delaney

#24. Andrea stared at me. "You're not taking me seriously!"
"That's probably because you're not excited enough," Derek said. "You should clench your fists like they do in the movies, shake them, and yell, 'This is bigger than any of us! It goes all the way to the top!

Ilona Andrews

#25. There's a kind of dream that movies sell to people: You can start as the lowliest person and rise to the top. 'Hit Me' doesn't sell this fantasy.

Steven Shainberg

#26. As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things. Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and that's it.

Robert Greene

#27. When we hesitate to change on time, we predispose ourselves to miss the boat that would take us to our envious future...

Assegid Habtewold

#28. My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

Chloe Sevigny

#29. One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was 'South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.' 'Team America' is a work of genius to me.

Josh Gad

#30. We all suffer our regrets.

Kiera Cass

#31. A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'

Viggo Mortensen

#32. My salvation does not hinge on my emotions. I have an official record. I have the Word of God: "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God: that ye may know that ye have eternal life."

Adrian Rogers

#33. I really can't answer that off the top of my head, my favorite movies. Each one individually was wonderfully made, wonderfully directed, wonderfully written, wonderfully acted, and each one was entirely different.I like romantic movies. I sort of go for the older movies.

Debbie Reynolds

#34. The reason it was so bruising when someone said I was from a rich family is that, like many of us, I'm deeply invested - probably overly so - in the myth of my own self-creation. I like to believe that I got where I am, such as it is, by working hard and charting my own course.

Meghan Daum

#35. Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.

Nina Blackwood

#36. My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hands.

Lloyd Alexander

#37. Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant ... does it get any better than this?

Ewan McGregor

#38. My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, 'The Russians are coming.' So we screened 'Red Dawn' and 'Top Gun.'

Olivia Thirlby

#39. He headed back for the door, and a smile so quick and secretive passed between him and Iko that Cinder almost missed it. Iko didn't take her gaze from him until he was gone.

Marissa Meyer

#40. You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.

Mickey Rourke

#41. I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.

John Cassavetes

#42. I was fortunate to be able to do two movies with Harold Ramis. He was the kindest of any director with whom I worked. Harold was a genius. On top of his talent, he could do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle faster than anyone! I am lucky to have known him as well as I did. I will miss him.

Andie MacDowell