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“My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."”

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Author:Winston Groom

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”

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

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

“May the Force be with you.”

“Like most people raised on American movies, I have poor access to my emotions, but can banter like a motherfucker.”

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Author:Josh Bazell

“A boy's best friend is his mother.”

“Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)”

Source: The Odes of Horace

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

“You can't handle the truth!”

“All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird, but I used to do a New Jersey accent in every audition in the States just because I liked to do it, really. It's completely bizarre. Everybody would ask: 'Where are you from?' And I would say, 'Oh, I'm from London.'”

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Author:Robert Pattinson

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

“I feel the need... the need for speed.”

“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.”

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

“I like looking back at people's faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the old American movies when drivers don't watch the road.”

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Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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

“American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative - I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.”

“Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can't remember the name, but it wasn't even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.”

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Author:Roger Federer

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

“Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!”

“Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.”

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Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“I am big. It's the pictures that got small.”

Source: Sunset Boulevard

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

“Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.”

“The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof”

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Author:Mary McCarthy

“That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.”

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Author:Gene Siskel

“American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.”

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Author:Vincente Minnelli

“Its a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.”

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Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.”

Source: Me and My Big Mouth

“American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.”

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Author:Todd Gitlin

“Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.”

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Author:Maxwell Caulfield

“It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.”

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Author:Roland Emmerich

“The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.”

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Author:Alex Winter

“When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.”

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Author:Monica Bellucci

“My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'”

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Author:Marina Abramovic

“Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.”

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Author:Irwin Winkler

“For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.”

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Author:Jay Baruchel

“Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, "oh!", and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.”

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Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.”

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Author:Tom Hooper

“I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.”

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Author:Neil Jordan

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