Hollywood is high school with money. ~ Martin Mull, Readers Digest, 5/03

I look for a thematic idea running through my movies and I see that it's the outsider struggling for recognition. I realize that all my life I've been an outsider, and above all, being lonely but never realizing it. ~ Martin Scorsese

I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can't be dying all the time. ~ Queen Latifah, Premiere, 2/04

You're only as good as your last picture. ~ Marie Dressler, Words from the Stars, 2001

Having done 300 television shows and almost 60 movies, I'm tired of having guys who are younger than some sandwiches I've had, telling me to turn left at the couch. There's no appreciation of actors and no sense of history. ~ Burt Reynolds

Directing is like putting together a collage. ~ Ethan Hawke

I don't want to be a great actress. I want to be a sexy movie star. ~ Angie Dickinson, Esquire, 3/66

The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive. ~ Bill Murray

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference. ~ Faye Dunaway, Movieline Hollywood 2/04

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism. ~ Quentin Tarantino, Entertainment Weekly , 4/16/04

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper. ~ Owen Wilson

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions. ~ Robert Redford

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. ~ Orson Welles

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting. ~ James Earl Jones, Voices and silences

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