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I always love it when people write me and say “I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.”
Audrey Hepburn1929–1993How to be Lovely‎ (2005)
I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.
Audrey Hepburn1929–1993Statement accepting the Screen Actors Guild Achievement Award, read by Julia Roberts, because of Hepburn’s failing health. (January 1993)
- Entertainment
I have been described as a snob on this issue. But snobs exclude; they do not include. To exclude b&w from your choices is an admission that you have a closed mind, a limited imagination, or are lacking in taste.
Roger Ebert1942–2013First published in the “Movie Answer Man” column (25 July 2004)
I found a calling. A life in storytelling. An identity in pretending to be other people.
Harrison Fordborn 1942Life Achievement Award acceptance speech, The Actor Awards (1 March 2026)
- Acting
Ours is a tough business to get into. In my case, it’s been a tough business to get out of, thank God.
Harrison Fordborn 1942Life Achievement Award acceptance speech, The Actor Awards (1 March 2026)
- Acting
- Comedy
I didn’t have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you’re rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You’re behind the eight ball when you go in there.
Robert De Niroborn 1943“What I’ve Learned”, Esquire
- Acting
Sound is half the experience of seeing a film. That’s why I have been bothered by the poor sound reproduction in many theaters and most homes.
George Lucasborn 1944“In the Action With ‘Star Wars’ Sound”, The New York Times (3 May 1992)
Crikey, mate. You’re far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.
Steve Irwin1962–2006from “Enough Rope With Andrew Denton” on ABC, 2004
- Clever Jabs
I haven’t had an orthodox career, and I’ve wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn’t feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
Sally Fieldborn 1946Said during Field’s Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actress in 1984’s Places in the Heart
- Acting
The part never calls for it. And I’ve never ever used that excuse. The box office calls for it.
Helen Mirrenborn 1945Of nudity on stage, as quoted in The Guardian (31 December 1994)
- Acting
You don’t have to be smart to act — look at the outgoing president of the United States.
Cherborn 1946Remark (December 1988), reported in Brewer’s Cinema (1995)
We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb, and for better or for worse, we’re all living in Oppenheimer’s world. So I would really like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere.
Cillian Murphyborn 1976“Cillian Murphy Wins Best Actor: “I Would Really Like to Dedicate This to the Peacemakers”” in Vanity Fair (10 March 2024)
- War & Peace
[Hollywood films] tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don’t have to think about it. … The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.
Terry Gilliamborn 1940Interview to TCM comparing the work of Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick (2009)
- Thinking
We all reflect the world we live in. Even if you make a period film, it will reflect your times.
David Lynch1946–2025Catching the Big Fish (2006), “Darkness”, p. 91
I slept with some nerd. I hope it was George [Lucas]. I took too many drugs to remember.
Carrie Fisher1956–2016In a Vanity Fair interview when asked how she got the part in Star Wars
- Comedy