It's like watching a movie in someone's living room.
Barbara Pergament
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I can't believe I'm watching what I'm watching. That's my living room. That was my living room.
LINDA ESTRADA over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it
MARGARET WEIS It was odd, watching the wake roll out the front windows; like watching a movie in reverse.
JIM PETERSON Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.
LUIS BUñUEL I just like sitting at home, chilling and watching a movie.
NIALL HORAN She wanted something cultural there instead of anther shop or restaurant.
BARBARA PERGAMENT There are some nights people don't want to leave. They're just so comfortable.
BARBARA PERGAMENT It's like watching an unbelievable movie or novel unfold.
RAY ANDERSON For me math class is like watching a foreign movie without subtitles.
ANONYMOUS This rally is the perfect storm. It's surreal, it's like watching a movie.
FADEL GHEIT Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
PATRICIA HEATON It's really scary. It's intimidating, but it is so cool to be here and not watching this in my livin...
CHRISTINE TAYLOR I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.
DEAN CAIN I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.
MIKE BIRBIGLIA 'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time,...
LUKE BRACEY You don’t like romantic shit,” Luke remarks and frowns at me.
“I don’t like watching yo...
KRISTEN PROBY It's very much like watching a movie except you're very much apart of it. It's participatory theater...
BARBARA LAZAROFF I look like Barbara Bush in drag." Aunt Jettie
MOLLY HARPER If it's a woman, its caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. -Barbara Walters.
BARBARA WALTERS Only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one
ELVIS PRESLEY A pot clashes with its lid
In someones hurried kitchen
A telephone boils off the hook.
Outside, a ca...
KATHY WALKER It's always been a real comfortable place to play, living room-like in the best of ways.
WILL JOHNSON I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almos...
DARIO ARGENTO Thank you? Was that like a thanks, but no thanks? Thanks, but I’m watching a movie, leave me alone...
CORA CARMACK When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had re...
EDGAR WRIGHT To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in you...
TED SARANDOS Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, come forward!
KEN ROSATO A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earth...
TOM ROBBINS I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you're watching a...
MICHAEL CIMINO They spent the time to open everything up like Christmas morning in my living room.
GEORGE SIMPSON Watching movie instead of reading books, feeling like I am getting away from my own fantasy.
P S DAVID PAUL (On Facebook) Every morning I get up and someone has left a comment of 'Woof', Grrrrr, Howl, etc und...
JOHN LEWINGTON A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its ea...
TOM ROBBINS People always ask me, 'I don't know how you could watch that, how that affects you,' and...
MARCUS LUTTRELL But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box...
RAINBOW ROWELL A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it'...
DARYL HANNAH A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's ...
TOM STOPPARD A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it's...
DARYL HANNAH I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her livi...
DAVE FRANCO I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
L'WREN SCOTT Watching your moves is like going 24/7 in one room out of freedom just watching when you are going t...
DEYTH BANGER It was like a family reunion, watching the movie, ... It's always a good feeling when I can get a sc...
CHRIS TUCKER I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it...
DANIEL HANDLER A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it...
DARYL HANNAH A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it...
TOM STOPPARD [For an actor who was then living in New York, Daniels said, working on a Woody Allen movie was some...
JEFF DANIELS It is a pro-U.N. movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a mov...
SCOTT RITTER I actually haven't been on many dates, but I like just chilling around at home and watching a mo...
NIALL HORAN I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this en...
NICK HARKAWAY Smile in all that you do, it might just make someones day!
JEFFREY COLEMAN JR. I feel like I'm watching a movie. I watch the news and the television, and I think it's going to hit...
MICHELLE WILLIAMS Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candl...
MICHAEL IAN BLACK One Call Plumber Santa Barbara take care to look at the plumbing issue from the inside out, to make ...
ONE CALL PLUMBER SANTA BARBARA I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert....
LEV GROSSMAN By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Someone living in Fresno has very different concerns from a voter in Eureka or Santa Barbara. When y...
DARRY SRAGOW In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.
JOSEPH R. SIZOO A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in
GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA There is no compromise when it comes to someones delicate feelings, the only way out is to stop pret...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I love the movie previews... you know... Why is it whenever you're watching a movie preview you alwa...
JIM GAFFIGAN "I love the movie previews... you know... Why is it whenever you're watching a movie preview you alw...
JIM GAFFIGAN If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'...
DAKOTA FANNING I've tried to imagine winning this race since I was a boy, but I couldn't; it's magic. It was just l...
MARTIN BRASSIL I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.
RYAN GOSLING Without his books, his room felt like a body with its hearts cut out.
LAINI TAYLOR Imagine watching a movie on your life ...are you enjoying your movie? Is it fun? Entertaining? Inspi...
LORRIN L. LEE I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were s...
CARLENE CARTER Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Prayer can guarantee anyones success but never someones failure.
FAISAL KHOSA Living in a small apartment requires some ingenuity to find a good location where it doesn't take up...
LINDA JOHNSON The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that ...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL The new library was created fundamentally as the Spanish would have designed it, were they living he...
BERNARD MAYBECK I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual...
KATE VOEGELE My kitchen was built for my body. It forms a 'U' in the middle of the living room and dining...
RUTH REICHL I prefer you think that I'm like everybody else, ... I'm just Barbara.
BARBARA SPIEGEL To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that peop...
DARREN ARONOFSKY Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like wat...
HUSAM WAFAEI I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY [During one scene in the movie] Proof, ... Night of the Living Dead.
ANTHONY HOPKINS Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon--You deserve to be taken out of circulat...
KARL KESEL When you read someones quote you are reading someones feelings. To understand ones words you need to...
ROSA M. BETANCES Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I ...
KATY PERRY Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. B...
JON KATZ What's more fun than sitting in your living room in funny glasses?
GLENN GORDON CARON Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and li...
MARK TWAIN Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There's something so great when you're watching a movie when you slowly get to know somebody...
DEREK CIANFRANCE Gay robbers came in last night and rearranged the living room
ROBIN WILLIAMS Chris Rock doesn't do that, ... They're paying me my normal rate like I was doing a theater or colle...
KATHY GRIFFIN I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much
Like something with no living of its own.
ELIZABETH JENNINGS I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.
ELIZABETH JENNINGS When watching a Steve McQueen movie on TV: "He must have made that before he died
YOGI BERRA A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
LANCE MORROW A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights
LANCE MORROW Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie ...
BEBE WINANS Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb i...
AIMEE BENDER It's a room that is really coming into its own. It's kind of like the man's kitchen.
STEVE D'GEROLAMO 'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were wat...
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie 'Legally Blonde' and I was like,...
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BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w...
BARBARA KOPPLE The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the l...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of a...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact t...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when th...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that har...
BARBARA JORDAN Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
BARBARA JORDAN