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My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else. -- Martin Scorsese
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life. -- Juliette Binoche
Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event. -- Sylvester Stallone
I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct. -- Jodie Foster
And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after. -- Piper Laurie
Movies and I just equally avoided each other at certain times in my life, you know? -- Summer Phoenix
You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation. -- Richard Stanley
Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research. -- Holly Black
Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life. -- Ja Rule
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. -- Mary Schmich
Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life. -- John Cusack
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't. -- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Having a life outside of movies is like pure oxygen. It makes the work more precious and informed. -- Annette Bening
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death. -- Orlando Bloom
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. -- Ted Turner
Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies. -- Ira Sachs
I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea. -- Janet Evanovich
The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence. -- Christopher McQuarrie
There were 10 or 15 years where all the Scandinavian movies were gray and light brown. I got really bored with it. I really felt that movies had to have that life of vivid colors. -- Susanne Bier
In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork. -- Sam Worthington
Life ain't the movies. -- Dorothy Allison
There's more to life than movies. -- Paul Walker
Movies are different from real life. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Life isn't what it's like in the movies. -- Josh Hartnett
As long as movies are depressing, life isn't. -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies. -- Truman Capote
I can't really remember my life without movies. -- Elle Fanning
All of life's riddles are answered in the movies. -- Steve Martin
Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed. -- Samuel L. Jackson
All movies are different, all movies have their own life. -- Kurt Russell
I position everything else in my life around making movies. -- Richard King
I just fight in my movies, never in real life. -- Sylvester Stallone
Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided ... -- Pauline Kael
I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it. -- Martin Scorsese
People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no. -- Anthony Mackie
Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies? -- Matthew Quick
You have to have a balance between your normal life and movies. -- Elle Fanning
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When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it. -- Matthew Lawrence
If I could transform my stage life to the movies, I'd be Jack Nicholson. -- Brian Dennehy
Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes. -- Chris Rock
When you make movies of based on real life, you try to exaggerate it. -- Matthew Lawrence
What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long. -- Denis Leary
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Actually, I look the same in real life as I do in the movies. -- Andy Lau
I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one. -- Mike Nichols
There wasn't anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies. -- George Lucas
I'll always have my skate life, but I absolutely like the fun of making movies. -- Ryan Sheckler
Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately. -- Jonah Hill
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Most of the holiday movies I enjoy, like 'It's a Wonderful Life,' don't really involve Santa. -- George Wendt
Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections. -- Josh Lucas
Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like. -- Oscar Isaac
My tendency in life is to like movies that deal with heavy stuff, but it's my nature. -- Hiam Abbass
I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies. -- E. L. James
My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies. -- John Boyega
I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system. -- Clint Eastwood
People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck. -- Jennifer Coolidge
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I love different kinds of movies, and I love different kinds of people. That's the spice of life. -- Joseph McGinty Nichol
In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl. -- Sylvester Stallone
They say the movies should be more like life; I think life should be more like the movies. -- Myrna Loy
I've done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights. -- Scott Rudin
Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with. -- Quentin Tarantino
People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one. -- Peter Morgan
I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do. -- Stevie Nicks
I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies. -- Jennifer Lawrence
People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one. -- Peter Morgan
Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life. -- Erin Heatherton
I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life. -- Seth Rogen
It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows. -- Cary Elwes
I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life. -- Rob Zombie
There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better. -- James Ponsoldt
I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies. -- Andy Garcia
There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion. -- Damien Chazelle
I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die -- Simon Cowell
I do feel good doing them [family-friendly movies], but it's not going to be my way of life. I'm a comedian. -- Adam Sandler
In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9. -- Josh Hutcherson
We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies. -- Zooey Deschanel
Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life. -- Jane Seymour
I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that. -- Harold Ramis
I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life. -- Dante Ferretti
Adam Sandler is a really funny guy in real life. Separate from all of the movies, that is a funny man. -- Judd Nelson
To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life. -- Scoot McNairy
I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure. -- Michael Pitt
For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life. -- Steve Guttenberg
You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life. -- David Brenner
One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life. -- Dakota Fanning
You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die. -- E. Lockhart
You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies. -- Steve Martin
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships. -- Tim Robbins
I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes. -- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things. -- Antonio Banderas
Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life. -- Alice Cooper
I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life. -- Cesar Romero
I've kissed just three people in my life, other than stuff that I've done for TV or movies. I know - I'm weird! -- Blake Lively
I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didnt have to be a gigolo. In real life. -- Cesar Romero
My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see. -- Steven Soderbergh
Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband. -- Bridgette Wilson
I'm not someone who sits at home and doesn't like to go out, doesn't like to watch movies. I like to live my life. -- Virat Kohli
Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life. -- Marlene Dietrich
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. -- Meryl Streep
This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful. -- Francesca Lia Block
You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life. -- Craig Venter
New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies. -- Clark Gregg
I've already made several friends-for-life from the latest movies I've worked on, and I know I'll make several more in the years to come. -- Gabriel Campisi
Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life. -- Tony Goldwyn
I'm at a point in my life where I could make 20 more movies, but I want to make 20 more movies that matter to me. -- Reese Witherspoon
I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies. -- John Travolta
I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces. -- Alexis Bledel
All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life. -- Jodie Foster
John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then. -- Carter Burwell
That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life. -- Meg Tilly
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't. -- Quentin Tarantino
You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."Steve Martin -- Steve Martin
Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies. -- Alan Rickman
People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. -- Andy Warhol
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way. -- Martin Scorsese

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