A Quote by Stone Cold Steve Austin

Based on the name value I had, I went to L.A. and got involved in independent movies.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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Based Got Had Independent Involved Movies Name Value

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Stone Cold Steve Austin
American - Actor
Born: December 18, 1964

If you were buying products or going to movies based upon the politics of the people involved, well I probably couldn't go to half the movies I go to.

Andrew Puzder

I had a Taco Bell audition where I had to wear a huge sombrero and walk around like an idiot. I got call-backs for the movie 'Twister,' did small independent stuff that I won't name. But it led to all my breakthrough moments on 'Entourage.'

Mark Cuban

Richard Donner made great movies. Seminal movies. The Academy, though, and we have to be careful here, should recognize popular films. Popular films are what make it all work. There was a time when popular movies were commercial movies, and they were good movies, and they had to be good movies. There was no segregation between good independent films and popular movies.

Amy Pascal

Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something.

Ella Baker

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

Steven Shainberg

I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I known for? My bit part.

Evelyn Keyes

I remember when I got into movies, the only way singers could be heard was to through playback singing in movies. Then gradually came the music companies promoting independent pop singers.

Dalip Tahil

My uncle Claude was my favorite uncle he was also my godfather. He and I were really, really close. He used to take me to see cowboy movies all the time when I was a little boy because I loved cowboy movies. He got a cowboy name for me, which was Smokey Joe. So from the time I was three years old if people asked me what my name was I didn't tell them my name was William, I told them my name was Smokey Joe.

Smokey Robinson

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

Mark Ruffalo

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

David Fincher

I feel independent music is a true expression of art, whereas in movies the songs are based on various situations and each has a lot of say from the industry people who are associated with the movie.

Jeet Gannguli

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

Octavia Spencer

I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique.

Judah Friedlander

It's the independent movies. Most of these people never even got a wrap party on their movie.

Nick Kroll

None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to naming one, there was another on the way.