Top 1200 Sports Movie Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

I actually heard hip-hop before I saw a movie in a movie theater. I heard hip-hop first, at the tender age of seven, so that came first. I didn't see a movie until I was eight.

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

When I go to the movie theater, I want to get emotion from the actors in the movie.

I don't like, speaking about the movie, if I may say couple more words, I like a movie that doesn't drag too much, unless it's purpose. I like a movie with an action with a certain pace. If it's too monotone, I hate it. No, I don't hate it, I just don't like it, period.

The sad thing about working on a movie is that you can never see the movie.

I would never make a movie just for the sake of making a movie.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

It's not like I'm going to go out and change the world and convert everyone into MMA fans. There's going to be fans out there who are fans of combat sports and fans of contact sports but not everybody's going to be converted.

When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

The 'Beavis and Butt-head' movie was just a movie-length version of the TV show.

Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like Inception, so we were just like, "Yeah, that makes the movie sound really smart!" It's so much better then my original title, Explosion. Well, there might be an explosion in the movie.

I would agree Paul is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.

We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.

Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day.

Today, if you listen to sports talk radio, they are not talking the right way about most women's sports. Those people will retire, or frankly a lot of them are getting fired or laid off - and we'll get younger people into key media positions who are more egalitarian, more open minded, more respectful.

They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days.

I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.

Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you're not sure if it's a video game or a movie. You have to wait till the end of it to see, oh, I see, those actors are in it, so that one's a movie. Oftentimes, it's based on a video game.

I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

I would agree 'Paul' is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

My favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber. It's a classic and I can pretty much recite the entire movie.

Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role.

Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie).

For a while, my favorite movie was 'Vertigo.' Everything in that movie was captivating to me.

The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

'The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

If you're doing a movie, the minute you put a monster in it, it becomes a horror movie.

Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory; to master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.

The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully.

In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for that.

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

In '39, they had no problem with it. But today, there's a huge issue with a movie that has no male movie stars.

Because movies have gotten so expensive, and they're so expensive to market, that means that for a movie to break even or to make its money back, everybody has to go see the movie, and if everybody has to go see the movie, then it can't be about anything.

If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen. The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except you’d feel robbed and want your money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.

When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie.

You think it's so cool to have movie stars in your movie, but they become people.

I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money.

And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I was going to design sports cars, but my father came to my college to visit me. At the time he was making a picture in Sweden and he took me there with him. I got to see Ingmar Bergman's company and I thought, 'Gee, filmmaking is a lot more fun than sports cars,' so I decided to follow him and go into acting.

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

I've always wanted to buy a sports car. After the England series, I went up to my dad and said that I wanted to buy a sports car and got his consent. On his birthday, I surprised him by bringing it home. It's a Porsche Boxter Limited Edition, and my family was thrilled to see it.

My favorite movie is 'Die Hard.' It doesn't have pinatas and mariachis. It's just a good movie.

Actors are real egomaniacs. They get into a movie, they think the whole movie's about them.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game.