Classic Films Quotes

I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You're treading on very thin ice.

I'd never studied film. I had movies that I loved and movie stars that I looked up to, but I really had not seen a lot of the great classic films that he felt like he wanted me to see before I took on such a huge role.

The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.

I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'Casablanca' a really long time ago when I was like, 12. I didn't like it that much, and then when I saw it again in class, I loved it.

Every man has got to know his limitations.

A man's got to know his limitations.

I watch all the classic films that film people say that you ought to have seen, and I try to watch things in the cinema when they come out, just to keep my eye on the competition. I'm bored when I'm not working.

Women sometimes really love to look at other beautiful women on the screen. But they don't look at a woman the way a man looks at a woman. They want to be that woman. They like if a woman is beautiful or sexy, especially if she's powerful. They like to see her catch a man, or to be powerful in the world. I think this is why a lot of women love noir films and classic films because they can really identify with these really strong, beautiful women. That's the kind of power that women have lost culturally.

I never solicited myself as a singer until I realized I could use that to a musical standpoint. I loved musicals growing up. Classic films were some of the only ones I watched. So when the opportunity came for the show to audition, of course it was all of a sudden, "I sing! I sing! Send me in, please. I beg of you."

I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

I am a fan of movies and there is something about watching film that is burned into celluloid for all time that is now a piece of history. You go watch, being a fan of classic films and my children and their children are going to be watching these movies.

A boy's best friend is his mother.

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.