Best Classic Films Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What Mayer did in the thirties― what he was situated to do as a Jew yearning to belong― was provide reassurance against the anxieties and disruptions of the time. He did this by fashioning a vast, compelling national fantasy out of his dreams and out of the basic tenets of his own dogmatic faith― a belief in virtue, in the bulwark of family, in the merits of loyalty, in the soundness of tradition, in America itself.”

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Book:An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

Source: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

“Cinema – all art really – has great power. Power to illuminate. Power to transform. For those of us who experience film as literature, classic movies comprised an introductory education in the genre. As kids, many of us went searching through library shelves for obscure source novels after seeing some old movie or other. It was the start of many an adventure.”

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Book:Vortex

Source: Vortex

“I've worked very hard, you know," she confided to him, "and I've planted some kind of-I've been lucky enough, I guess, to plant a star-and then people wanted to either get in the act or else they wanted to rob me emotionally or financially, whatever. And then walk away and it's always lonely”

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Book:Judy Garland

Source: Judy Garland

“Are you seriously going to kiss her for the ﬁrst time on an airplane? That has to be the most unromantic thing I’ve ever heard. Even Humphrey knew to kiss Bergman outside the plane. You need to follow the classics like Casablanca.”

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Book:The Paris Soulmate

Source: The Paris Soulmate

“He was the real deal, like my very own Clark Gable character from a classic ﬁlm. But, unlike Mr. Gable, Colin really did “give a–”

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Book:The Paris Soulmate

Source: The Paris Soulmate

“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.”

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Author:Edward Zwick

“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.”

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Author:Miranda Cosgrove

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

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

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Author:William Friedkin

“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."”

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Author:Dianna Agron

“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.”

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Author:Sam Riley

“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.”

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Author:Mary Steenburgen

“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.”

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Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“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.”

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Author:Anna Biller

“You're gonna need a bigger boat.”

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

“I wish I knew how to quit you.”

Source: Brokeback Mountain

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

Source: Hocus Pocus

“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.”

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

Source: The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

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

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

“I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.”

“A boy's best friend is his mother.”

“Every man has got to know his limitations.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Source: Me and My Big Mouth