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The Art of Film: Iconic Quotes That Defined Cinema

The Art of Film ‘ QUOTES FROM THE SCREEN

20 Feb 2025

“Giving voice to characters that have no other voice—that’s the great worth of what we do.” — Meryl Streep

17 Feb 2025

“A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.” ― Alfred Hitchcock

14 Feb 2025

“The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’ ” Michael Caine

11 Feb 2025

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” Marilyn Monroe

06 Feb 2025

“I don’t know anything about life, but everything about cinema.” Romy Schneider Romy Schneider (1938 – 1982)was a German-French actress. She began her career in the German Heimatfilm genre in the early 1950s when she was 15.

03 Feb 2025

“Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.” Julianne Moore (American Actress)

30 Jan 2025

“So, go on rising, sun, you don’t frighten us. We don’t care about your many miles, your diameter, your volume. Warm sun, just rise, bright light, arise. You are not big, you are not small, you are happiness.” ― Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz Berlin Alexanderplatz, originally broadcast in 1980, is a 14-part West German crime television miniseries, set in 1920s Berlin and adapted and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel of the same name.

28 Jan 2025

“After all, tomorrow is another day!” Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara Gone with the Wind (1939)

24 Jan 2025

“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.” Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.

22 Jan 2025

Mykonos 1978, Anthony Quinn dances the Zorba. Zorba the Greek is a 1964 comedy-drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by Greek Cypriot filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis. It stars Anthony Quinn as Zorba, an earthy and boisterous Cretan peasant, and Alan Bates as the buttoned-up young intellectual he befriends.

20 Jan 2025

“- Katie: Wouldn’t it be lovely if we were old? We’d have survived all this. And everything would be easy and uncomplicated, the way it was when we were young. – Hubbell: Katie, it was never uncomplicated.” Barbra Streisand (Katie) and Robert Redford (Hubbell) The Way we Were (1973)

16 Jan 2025

“If being crazy means – living life as if it matters, then I don’t care if we’re completely insane. Do you?” April Wheeler/Kate Winslet Revolutionary Road, 2009 based on the novel by Richard Yates.

14 Jan 2025

“I never say ‘never,’ and I never say ‘always.’” Grace Kelly (1929 – 1982) Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who, after starring in several significant films in the early to mid-1950s, became Princess of Monaco by marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956.

16 Dec 2024

“Books have always been my escape – where I go to bury my nose, hone my senses, or play the emotional tourist in a world of my own choosing… Words are my best expressive tool, my favorite shield, my point of entry…When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn’t feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter. If I could choose my favorite day, my favorite moment in some perfect dreamscape, I know exactly where I would be: stretched out in bed in the afternoon, knowing that the kids are taking a nap and I’ve got two more chapters left of some heartbreaking novel, the kind that messes you up for a week.” Jodie Foster (American Actress)

12 Dec 2024

“The thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they’re constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.” Keira Knightley

09 Dec 2024

“I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.” Denzel Washington (American Actor)

06 Dec 2024

“If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart. ” Angelina Jolie

04 Dec 2024

“Listen to me, mister. You’re my knight in shining armor. Don’t you forget it. You’re going to get back on that horse, and I’m going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we’re gonna go, go, go!” Katharine Hepburn, On Golden Pond (1981)

02 Dec 2024

“We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time… detached.” La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini (1960)

28 Nov 2024

“I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty… in every form.” Joan Crawford, ca. 1938 George Hurrell

26 Nov 2024

“I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.” Charlie Chaplin

27 Mar 2024

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” — Marilyn Monroe

27 Mar 2024

“I like being famous when it’s convenient for me and completely anonymous when it’s not.” — Catherine Deneuve

27 Mar 2024

“Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn’t turn out very well – you go, ‘Why did you do that?’ But in the end, I can’t regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.” — Robin Williams