Best Movie Quotes

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that’s why they’re so relatable.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I’m not telling you what it’s about and I’m not telling you who’s in it.

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the ’70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don’t want to sing in front of anybody.

My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn’t know what to do! You can’t be a movie director without real preparation.

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

When I was doing ‘This Boy’s Life’ I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

I don’t like comedy. I like funny things. I don’t like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, ‘Oh Jesus.’

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let’s just hope it’s sells (for my sake at least)!

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody’s got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

I don’t want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn’t like me. I guess I wasn’t a certain type.

It’s my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I’m not that kind of guy and I’m not going to continue to do that kind of movie.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

It was so embarrassing, everytime I see it, I blush. Imagine if you saw yourselves like that. It’s one thing to get dressed up and do the movie star thing, but I mean, it’s my job to be outside of that and it’s not like I’m on the outside when they’re all watching me. [About the famous car wash scene from One Night at McCool’s]

I’ve always been someone who feels better, if I see what I’m going through in a movie.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It’s a youth business.

Directing ain’t about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn’t want to go to film school. I didn’t know what the point was. The fact is, you don’t know what directing is until the sun is setting and you’ve got to get five shots and you’re only going to get two.

I touched emotions I’ve never tapped in my entire life. I’ve heard people say, ‘I hope this movie doesn’t glamorise drugs.

The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

I just think it’s really funny and entertaining. I mean, I don’t necessarily take them really seriously – I don’t even think a lot of really good films get seen. But I don’t think that’s what it’s about. I mean, how amazing was Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For A Dream ? Especially as she was acting with herself most of the time. I don’t understand how a performance like that can’t win. I was so affected by that movie that I had to turn it off. I felt as if I was on drugs and my heart was about to leap out of my body.

It was a very good experience. It wasnt just to make a movie, it was my life. I was employed at The Lord of the Rings for a year and a half.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.