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I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash. -- Bill Forsyth
I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw. -- Neve Campbell
I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.' -- Diane Kruger
People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers. -- Andrew Scott
I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either. -- Kirsten Dunst
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 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
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
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
We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers. -- Noreena Hertz
I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then. -- John Abraham
I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid's a hard worker, he's talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. -- Kevin Hart
When I started 'Hudson Hawk,' I realized I was dealing with a strong-willed producer, a strong-willed actor, and, at times, a strong-willed studio, and I was the junior partner in all of this - the guy who hadn't proven anything in terms of box-office success. -- Michael Lehmann
Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports. -- Bryan Cranston
I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his cinema, which was so utopian. I also wanted to give the sense of his cinema, because they have never been very big box-office, but they were very influential. -- Isabella Rossellini
I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself! -- Olivia Williams
Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president. -- James Surowiecki
The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view. -- Ang Lee
There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fracture.' Ryan Gosling ended up doing it with Anthony Hopkins. It wasn't a giant box-office success, but I really enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the character. I got pretty close and was kind of disappointed it didn't go my way. -- Chris Evans
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
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office. -- Mae West
Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office. -- Mary Hart
Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career. -- Chris Klein
You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands. -- Alex Van Halen
Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters. -- Jessica Chastain
As a rule, Germans shouldn't do comedy. Their last box office comedy was Nosferatu. -- Stephen Colbert
A gay murder movie is never going to be, like, breaking box office records. -- Daniel Radcliffe
When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office. -- Jackie Chan
If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men. -- Judd Apatow
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
It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office. -- Eric Fellner
Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done. -- Ayn Rand
Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz. -- Ryan Reynolds
I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun. -- Tim Robbins
I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way -- Holly Hunter
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 gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books. -- Timothy Ferriss
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
Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time. -- Rob Urbinati
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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