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Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time. -- Rob Urbinati
I was born in 1973, so I did not see 'Alien' when it was released theatrically. I saw 'Alien' when it was on Home Box Office. I think I was probably 10. -- Damon Lindelof
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office. -- Mae West
When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office. -- Jackie Chan
People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less. -- Johnny Depp
I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible. -- Ridley Scott
Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office. -- George Lucas
I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability. -- Leonard Mlodinow
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. -- Laura Hillenbrand
When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going. -- Denzel Washington
Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult. -- Jackie Chan
The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. -- Tom Hanks
Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else. -- Yahoo Serious
What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job. -- Diane Kruger
Sometimes I know a film might not pull the audience to the theatres and have a great collection at the box office. But I need to do these films for creative satisfaction and give something different to the audience. -- Emraan Hashmi
Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do. -- Tyler Perry
So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that. -- Charlize Theron
Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion. -- Tullian Tchividjian
I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies. -- Kajol
I've made some stupid decisions, so I have to be careful. I once said 'no' to a film that was a number-one hit. And 'Date Movie' had the smallest budget of any movie I'd been in, and it went to the top of the box office. -- Sophie Monk
Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves. -- Mahesh Babu
It's funny because I remember when I came to the U.S. with 'Swimming Pool,' the movie did well, and it was great box office for a French movie, but I remember I was a bit upset because all people talked to me about was the nudity. -- Ludivine Sagnier
Lana Turner was adorable and funny. Jimmy Stewart was such a nice person. I quickly realized that if you're not a nice person, you're not going to last in this business. I mean, once your box office starts to drop off, like Veronica Lake, they'll get rid of you fast. -- Robert Osborne
I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do. -- John C. Reilly
Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's anything wrong with 'Casino Royale.' But 'Happy Feet' - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can't resist straying into the Inspirational. -- Robert Gottlieb
People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up. -- Martin Scorsese
My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan. -- Karan Johar
I've never been driven by box office. -- Charlize Theron
Today it's not culture; it's box office. -- Alex North
I win my awards at the box office. -- Cecil B. DeMille
I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office. -- Blake Edwards
Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does. -- Michael Nesmith
Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office. -- Mary Hart
You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands. -- Alex Van Halen
Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career. -- Chris Klein
I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash. -- Bill Forsyth
A gay murder movie is never going to be, like, breaking box office records. -- Daniel Radcliffe
As a rule, Germans shouldn't do comedy. Their last box office comedy was Nosferatu. -- Stephen Colbert
I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw. -- Neve Campbell
Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters. -- Jessica Chastain
If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men. -- Judd Apatow
It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office. -- Eric Fellner
I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.' -- Diane Kruger
Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers. -- Andrew Scott
Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done. -- Ayn Rand
I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way -- Holly Hunter
I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz. -- Ryan Reynolds
I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either. -- Kirsten Dunst
I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun. -- Tim Robbins
My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw. -- Neve Campbell
It's about balance. Do a movie that's good for your career, then do a one that gets good box office. -- James Marsden
I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men. -- Ellen Page
I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books. -- Timothy Ferriss
I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books. -- Timothy Ferriss
The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures. -- Faran Tahir
In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films. -- Philippe Falardeau
I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in. -- Susie Bright
Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where can can't see either. -- Kin Hubbard
The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office. -- John Cusack
A friend of mine rang the box office to collect a ticket I'd reserved for her, and the girl said, 'Who's Lesley Manville?' -- Lesley Manville
To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office. -- Don Simpson
You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office." -- Jason Patric
You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office. -- Jason Patric
I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit. -- Laura Dern
The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place. -- Michael Medved
You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers. -- Alden Ehrenreich
I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor. -- Taylor Kitsch
When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-- And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer. -- Ani DiFranco
Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely. -- Dirk Benedict
I was, it was very high. Especially with international (box office), we did something that I didn't think this movie ["2012"] would do. I was very happy. -- Roland Emmerich
Yeah, I look at the box office as an indication as how many lives that you've touched, so my hope is touch as many lives as possible. -- DeVon Franklin
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films. -- Laura Dern
The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office. -- John Jay Hooker
Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of. -- Sylvia Kristel
When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie. -- Gayle King
Die Hard 2 was okay. It was a little outside the template but it was okay, a hard movie to make technically. Did well at the box office. Successful. -- Bruce Willis
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison -- Laura Hillenbrand
Give a cold shoulder to cold callers. Never invest in anything based on a phone call from someone you don't know or whose office is a post office box. -- Nancy Dunnan
Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth. -- Marlee Matlin
To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay. -- Sunny Deol
Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures. -- Joan Crawford
it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office. -- Greta Garbo
It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office -- Alan Ladd
Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films. -- Emraan Hashmi
Before my acting took off, I drove a truck for an inventory company throughout the northeast, but my favorite non-acting job was working in the box office at the Public Theater. -- Dorian Missick
When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher. -- Kevin Hart
I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power. -- Larry Gelbart
I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following. -- Joe Johnston
It's not simply that British films do well at the box office and generate revenue, it's that they provide a window to the world of what Britain and its culture is about. -- Gurinder Chadha
So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens. -- David Zucker
At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office and has also got great reviews. That feels like success. -- Deepika Padukone
I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following. -- Joe Johnston
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office. -- Yahoo Serious
But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire. -- Avi Arad
To the extent that movies get released, they are generally not big box-office generators. Hollywood is clearly focusing on their holiday releases coming up and those will either make or break the year. -- Tom Arnold
Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of. -- Cary Fukunaga
I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please. -- Gillian Jacobs
Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews. -- Pola Negri
Audiences and critics they don't like seeing what happens in real life. Why do you think comedies make all the money at the box office? People want to go and laugh. I can understand that. -- Channing Tatum
The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out. -- Jackie Cooper
If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter. -- Alona Tal
I'm gonna see 'Mission Impossible' Part 9 because I like Tom Cruise movies! But just because the box office has that one receipt from the ticket I purchased, doesn't mean it represents someone who liked it. -- Sean Patrick Flanery

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