Classic Films Quotes:

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.

- Mary Steenburgen

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Stars, Roles, Classic Films

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

- William Friedkin

source: Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. September 20, 2007.

topic: Legacy, Classic Films, Interest

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

- Peter Benchley

source: "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

topic: Inspirational, Movie, Needs, Best Film, Improvising

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

- William J. Bernstein

topic: Sorry, Mean, Investing, Need Love, Sorry For Him

Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.

- Larry Adler

source: Larry Adler, Philip Judge (1994). “Me and My Big Mouth”, Blake Pub

topic: Sorry, Mean, Vasectomy, Need Love, Sorry For Him

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

- Marc Ribot

topic: Sorry, Mean, Avant Garde, Need Love, Sorry For Him

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

- Oliver Stone

source: "Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 1987.

topic: Movie, Great Year, Greed, Memorable Movie, Institute

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

- Peter Sellers

source: "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

topic: War, Fighting, Gentleman, Film Music, Best Film

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

- Michael Douglas

topic: Greed, Memorable Movie, Institute, Misquoting, Street Life

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

- Dustin Hoffman

topic: Trying, Seducing, Memorable Movie, Institute, Misquoting

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

- Clark Gable

source: "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

topic: Movie, Badass, Wind, Best Film, War Movie

A boy's best friend is his mother.

- Joseph Stefano

source: "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

topic: Mom, Mother, Boys, Mother Son, Best Film

A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

- Thomas Harris

source: The Silence of the Lambs ch. 3 (1991)

topic: School, Littles, Beans, Best Film, 80s And 90s

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

- Mario Puzo

topic: Refuse, Offers, Best Film, Memorable Movie, Damn You

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

- Marlon Brando

topic: Classic, Refuse, Offers, Best Film, Memorable Movie

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Sorry, Mean, Need Love, Sorry For Him, Vasectomy

A man's got to know his limitations.

- Harry Callahan

topic: Inspirational, Men, Limitation, Western Films, Western Movie

I wish I knew how to quit you.

- Annie Proulx

source: Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

topic: Romantic Love, Romance, Wish, Memorable Movie, All Time Favorite

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.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: "Gone with the Wind".

topic: Movie, Great Year, Wind, Institute, Scarlett O Hara

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

- William Goldman

source: William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Movie, Revenge, Father, War Movie, Memorable Movie

I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.

- John Green

topic: Movie, Romantic, Real Love, Memorable Movie, All Time Favorite

Every man has got to know his limitations.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Western Films, Western Movie, Classic Films, Cowboy Movie

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.

- Miranda Cosgrove

topic: Class, Long, Saws, Classic Films

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.

- Edward Zwick

source: Source: movieweb.com

topic: Children, Pieces, Fans, Celluloid, Classic Films

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.

- Anna Biller

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Beautiful, Sexy, Strong, Classic Films

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."

- Dianna Agron

source: "Dianna Agron on Life, Glee, and the Paparazzi". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

topic: Growing Up, Opportunity, Musical, Classic Films

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.

- Sam Riley

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Eye, People, Bored, Classic Films

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.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

topic: Character, Thinking, Ice, Mcqueen, Classic Films