When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf you scroll through all the movies I've worked on, you can understand how I was a specialist in westerns, love stories, political movies, action thrillers, horror movies, and so on. So in other words, I'm no specialist, because I've done everything. I'm a specialist in music.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.
Copy Quote View & ShareI didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.
Copy Quote View & ShareI was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
Copy Quote View & ShareI want to see different faces on the covers of magazines, the stars of movies, featured on billboards.
Copy Quote View & ShareI don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
Copy Quote View & ShareI'm definitely a romantic comedy dude because I'm a big romantic at heart. I'm a softy, so it's always nice to watch movies that make you think that love at first sight is actually possible.
Copy Quote View & ShareIn 'Expendables 2,' there was a lot of vulgar dialogue in the screenplay. For this reason, many young people wouldn't be able to watch this. But I don't play in movies like this. Due to that, I said, 'I won't be a part of that if the hardcore language is not erased.'
Copy Quote View & ShareIn movies, people seem to be more emotional than they would ever be if that situation was actually happening to them.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.
Copy Quote View & ShareI sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy favorite movies were 'Singin' in the Rain' and stuff that had a more classic comedy type feel, that more slapsticky stuff. It's the comedy I've gravitated towards.
Copy Quote View & ShareI just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
Copy Quote View & ShareI lost my front tooth in rugby league when a fat guy from Bellevue Hill kicked me in the face as I got up from a tackle to mark him. I made this decision not to cap the tooth because I thought it was false. But I didn't make any movies as a teenager, and I had a very hard time with girls and stuff.
Copy Quote View & Share'The Exorcist' is one of the finest movies ever made, and it just so happens to be a scary movie.
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