Madchen Amick quote: "Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character."

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JUDE WATSON

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play ca...
ADAM DRIVER

There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fractur...
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Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
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I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a r...
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BARRY JENKINS

I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of th...
NEIL MARSHALL

I was a guy back in the Eighties who was one movie away from a huge career, which at that time didn&...
DENNIS QUAID

I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fir...
BILL HADER

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it&...
ALICE LOWE

It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go...
LYNN COADY

And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Preju...
ROSAMUND PIKE

I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same ...
DARREN STAR

When they sold me on 'Supergirl', I went and sat down with Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlant...
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I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just...
GUY PEARCE

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover the...
GARRY MARSHALL

I was always prepared for my 'Fringe' journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a...
SETH GABEL

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut i...
ARCHIE PANJABI

It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, a...
AARON RUELL

I remember this song by Clay Walker that came out in the '90s called 'This Woman and This Ma...
COLE SWINDELL

I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wante...
ELIZABETH REASER

I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China calle...
ELIZA COUPE

I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low...
WILL FERRELL

I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there si...
BARRY JENKINS

I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed '...
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I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy... A really sw...
ZOE MCLELLAN

When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools ...
ALEXANDER KOCH

I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star look...
CAROL BURNETT

In terms of the first Christmas when I met everybody, I went over to Nick's grandfather's ho...
MEGAN MULLALLY

I was living in Evanston, Illinois and I was taking theater classes down the street, and our theater...
LECY GORANSON

Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video'...
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I got a little over 200 myself and I'll go back to the same people this time and then go back to oth...
DAVE STUDER

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that...
CARRIE PRESTON

When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that...
JUNOT DIAZ

The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rin...
CONNOR FRANTA

I see the first 'Bourne' movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action fil...
AISHA TYLER

I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinnin...
ALAN ARKIN

When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to 'The Witch'...
AL FELDSTEIN

I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar&#...
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I think on 'ER,' my other long-running show, I had some ideas about what's going on. ...
MING-NA WEN

You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

My brother and my father both got laid off around the same that I was starting to do this movie '...
MICHAEL PENA

I went to Poland for the Warsaw Film Festival, and it was quite an intense experience. I didn't ...
LENNY ABRAHAMSON

About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS

You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN

I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have poster...
HUGH JACKMAN

'Friends With Benefits': it feels like a two-hander to me, but it is a big movie, and this i...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, '...
MATTHEW LILLARD

The first chance I had to go to Japan, which was in the early nineties, I went to a Noh play. I thou...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

I think I was scared of the drag thing, as a lot of gay boys are. It's sort of knocked out of yo...
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL

Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other wome...
AMANDA TAPPING

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FLORENCE WELCH

I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save ti...
STACEY FARBER

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BRENDON URIE

I did a music festival in France. I'm not going to name names, but there were bigger bands and D...
KRISTIAN NAIRN

What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange ...
VINCENT CASSEL

When I went to Broadway in the mid-sixties, everybody was trying to emulate Al Pacino and Robert De ...
JOHN DAVIDSON

When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark d...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's bett...
SIMON KINBERG

There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was try...
DANA CARVEY

The first time I met Jon Stewart was at the press conference that Comedy Central held to announce Jo...
STEPHEN COLBERT

I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy....
ADAM MCKAY

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,...
CHRIS COLFER

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel al...
MINDY KALING

The reality is that every movie is a new business. Nobody says, 'Hey, let's go down to the P...
PETER GUBER

There are characters that have made me uncomfortable. I did a film called 'Rob Roy,' and I p...
BRIAN COX

Every time I talk about 'The Shield' I kind of talk about it from three perspectives, as if ...
BENITO MARTINEZ

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into come...
JACK DEE

I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon'...
AARON RUELL

The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more t...
GARY SHERMAN

I was doing a movie, 'Diana,' and I pulled aside the guy who was making the nose for Naomi W...
DOUGLAS HODGE

One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of peo...
HODA KOTB

Half the shows on Comedy Central are just multi-cam blue sets, and they kind of look like game shows...
ERIC ANDRE

No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don&#...
NICK CAVE

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to ...
SCOTT ADSIT

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was act...
IVAN REITMAN

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ROBERT KNEPPER

Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm ki...
MICHELLE WILLIAMS

You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work ...
ZACHARY KNIGHTON

There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood's kind of a throwback...
MONICA POTTER

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behin...
KEVIN HART

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen th...
MONICA BELLUCCI

With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I...
ADAM BEACH

I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, an...
KEVIN ALEJANDRO

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater studen...
AASIF MANDVI

I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was - I don't know, f...
FIONA DOURIF

I like to work as much as I can, but I only really have the hiatus to work on other projects. I'...
KUNAL NAYYAR

I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.
TERRY CREWS

There's something magical about film, it's the ultimate for me, because it's kind of per...
PAUL MERTON

When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like...
BYRON HOWARD

I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyo...
LESLEY MANVILLE

I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't r...
JAMES MERCER

Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwar...
TIM VINE

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two...
WILLIE MAYS

Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than i...
BRIAN DENNEHY

Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

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