Box Office Quotes:

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

- Bill Forsyth

topic: Thinking, Office, Joy, Comfort And Joy, Box Office

Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Writing, Eye, Office, Box Office

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

topic: Winning, Awards, Office, Box Office

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

source: "The Age of Political Risk". www.newyorker.com. May 24, 2010.

topic: Horse, Race, Track, Box Office

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

topic: Years, Office, People, Box Office

So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an extremely passionate fan base. This coincided with the 13 year old boys starting to stay home and play video games and work on their home media stuff. They're no longer going to theaters in droves.

- Melissa Rosenberg

topic: Girl, Twilight, Home, Box Office

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

- Tim Robbins

topic: Fun, Office, Acting, Box Office, Lighting

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

- Ryan Reynolds

topic: Thinking, Office, Boxes, Showbiz, Box Office

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

topic: Office, People, Giving, Box Office

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

- Harold Prince

source: Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 24, 2010.

topic: Successful, Ideas, Office, Box Office

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

topic: Passion, People, Office, Passion Of The Christ, Box Office

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

- Mae West

topic: Office, Rewards, Virtue, Box Office

I certainly wouldn't compare the rewards of watching one's children grow and mature with that of money piling up at the box office. Both are pleasant, but to varying degrees. As the old saying goes, you can't take an audience home with you. You can't depend on the loyalty of fans, who, after all is said and done, are just faceless people one seldom sees. And few stars have their fans forever. But a child is forever. That bond and relationship is timeless and doesn't depend on your looks, age or popularity at the moment.

- Julie Andrews

source: Saturday Evening Post, February 1980.

topic: Loyalty, Stars, Children, Faceless, Said And Done

After the second Die Hard, Bruce Willis stated he would never do another. He should have stayed firm in his resolve. If quality is any indication (and it may be, with all the available blockbusters), box office returns will be disappointing this time around and, if nothing else, that will do to John McClane what dozens of assorted bad guys couldn't manage: kill him.

- James Berardinelli

source: "Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

topic: Should Have, Office, Guy, Assorted, Box Office

Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane. The original Die Hard came out of nowhere to blitz the 1988 summer box office. The fourth installment arrives with a weight of expectations that Atlas would have trouble shouldering and, when the dust settles in September, it's unlikely that Live Free or Die Hard will be one of this year's big success stories.

- James Berardinelli

source: "Live Free or Die Hard (United States, 2007)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

topic: Summer, Real, Dust, Blitz, Box Office

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

topic: Successful, Office, Littles, Box Office

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

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Stars, Mean, Thinking, Box Office

There are short parts that I as an actor am very right for. Or I just like the part. Or you need someone like me for the movie. By that I don't mean at the box office, I mean in the execution of the material.

- Jack Nicholson

topic: Mean, Office, Needs, Box Office

…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

- Albert Camus

source: Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.26, Vintage

topic: Sunday, Waiting Rooms, Office, Uneasy, Sunday Afternoons

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

source: Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.119, David C Cook

topic: Dog, Fashion, Hate, Personal Values, Box Office

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

topic: Believe, Hype, Numbers, Box Office

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

topic: Office, Want, Gamer, Box Office

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

- Jackie Chan

topic: Office, Care, Boxes, Box Office

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

topic: Movie, Office, Actors, Box Office

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

topic: Office, Dollars, Figure Skating, Box Office

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

- Vincent D'Onofrio

topic: Character, Worry, Office, Box Office

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

- Johnny Depp

topic: People, Office, Care, Box Office

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

- Aamir Khan

source: Source: www.danielpillai.com

topic: Office, Yardsticks, Helping, Box Office

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

topic: Office, Fake, Promotion, Box Office

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

- Jessica Lange

topic: Office, Mind, Kind, Mind Set, Box Office

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

topic: Girl, Sunset, Boys, Happy Girl, Boy And Girl

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

topic: Writing, Men, Views, Box Office

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

topic: Office, Hollywood, Different, Different Mentality, Box Office

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

topic: Stars, Real, Thinking, Box Office

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

topic: Jobs, Thinking, People, Box Office

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

topic: Office, Film, Boxes, Box Office

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

topic: Office, People, Lovely, Box Office

L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters.

- Dylan Walsh

topic: New York, Office, Important, Newspaper Reporters, Box Office

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

source: Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. January 09, 2003.

topic: Office, Dollars, Cruise, Box Office

I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

- Oren Peli

source: "‘Paranormal Activity’ Director Oren Peli Talks About Creating the New ABC Show ‘The River’" by Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2012.

topic: Office, Waiting, Pay, Box Office

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

- Paul Mazursky

topic: Hurt, Office, Want, Box Office

Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.

- Chris Klein

topic: Zero, Careers, Office, Box Office

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Mean, Office, Tickets, Receipts, Box Office

My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

- Neve Campbell

topic: Past, Issues, Office, Box Office

I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.

- Neve Campbell

topic: Office, Nudity, Boxes, Box Office

I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.

- Yash Chopra

source: "The Scene" Interview, edition.cnn.com. October 3, 2006.

topic: Passion, Office, Able, Box Office

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

topic: Believe, Thinking, Office, Box Office

Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office!

- Laura Ingraham

topic: New York, Passion, Office, Moguls, Opening Day

I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. 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. Sometimes that's a palpable thing, but other times it's not. No actor has control of that. All you can control is your own passion for doing the work in the first place.

- Tom Hanks

source: Source: www.oprah.com

topic: Crush, Passion, Squares, Box Office

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

source: "Bryan Cranston on Breaking Bad's craziest season and what's next". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2012.

topic: Country, Thinking, Giving, Local News, Box Office