The most beautiful forgotten quotes from famous films. Beautiful quotes about love

Rare stories Love in movies can be called absolutely happy. In some there is no happy ending, in others the heroes go through difficult trials on the path to happiness, in others the relationships are completely destructive. Therefore, you hardly want to repeat the characters’ stories completely. However, at the climax, the characters choose words of love that will melt almost any heart.

1. Mark and Juliet from Love Actually

One of the short stories in this classic Christmas story is about a man who falls in love with his wife. best friend. Mark hides his feelings from Juliet until a combination of circumstances opens her eyes. Mark does not claim reciprocity, but his confession is one of the most touching in modern cinema. He comes to his friend's house and shows Juliet cards with inscriptions.

If I'm lucky next year, I'll be dating one of these girls. (Shows photos of models.) And now let me say without hope and without any reason, but only because it’s Christmas (and on Christmas they tell the truth). For me you are perfection. And my broken heart will love you until you become like this. (Shows a photo of the mummy.)

2. Harry and Sally from When Harry Met Sally

Harry and Sally are friends for many years. All their attempts to build relationships with other people end in failure. And only 12 years after they met, they realize that all these years they ran from love in vain. Harry finds Sally at the party and talks about his feelings.

I love that you're freezing when it's 22 degrees outside. I love that you spend an hour and a half ordering a sandwich. I love that wrinkle that appears on the bridge of your nose when you look at me like I'm crazy. I love that even at the end of the day my suit smells like your perfume. I like that before going to bed I want to talk to you.

3. Arwen and Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The elf Arwen and the man Aragorn several times chose between feeling and duty, not in favor of the first. At first, Aragorn did not want to take his beloved away from his family. Arwen's father then advised his daughter not to give up immortality because of a union with a human. Finally, the heroes meet again and decide not to be separated again.

Do you remember when we met for the first time?
- I thought I was in a dream.
- Many years have passed. You didn't have the difficulties that you have now. Do you remember what I told you?
- You said that you would be with me, giving up immortality.
- I want this now. I would rather share one mortal life with you than spend an immortal life alone.

4. David and Diana from Indecent Proposal

David and Diana Murphy are a young couple. They have a ritual by which they are reminded of their feelings. The characters confess their love to each other in dialogue. And these words work even after an unpleasant adventure in which the spouses get involved and which theirs.

Have I ever told you that I love you?
- No.
- I love you.
- Still?
- Always.

5. Phil and Rita from Groundhog Day

TV presenter Phil becomes hostage on February 2. Day after day he is forced to live through the same events. Thanks to this, Phil understands who he is and gets to know producer Rita better, with whom he falls in love. He tells the girl about his problem with Groundhog Day, and she agrees to stay in his room to see if it's true. Rita falls asleep and Phil tells her how he feels.

I wanted to say that you are the kindest, most gentle and most beautiful of all women. I have never met a person in my life who was so kind to people. When I first saw you, something happened to me. I never talked about it, but I wanted to hug you tightly. I don't deserve you. But if it were possible, I swear, I would love you all my life.

6. Ellie and Noah from The Notebook

Classic story: Noah is from a poor family, Ellie is from a rich family. Due to circumstances, the summer romance does not develop into something more, and the couple separates. Years later, they meet again, and Ellie doubts whether their relationship has a second chance. Noah makes one final argument.

Life will not be easy, but, on the contrary, very difficult. I will have to fight this every day, but I will fight because I need you! I want you to be with me. Every moment. Always!

7. Donna and Sam in Mamma Mia!

In her youth, Donna dated several men and gave birth to a daughter from one of them. She doesn’t know exactly who Sophie’s father is, so she invites all the contenders to her wedding. At the last moment, the daughter decides to postpone the wedding, but one of the potential fathers, Sam, prevents the wedding from going to waste. He confesses his love to Donna and leads her to the altar.

Why should the wedding disappear? What do you say, Donna Sheridan? You need someone to run this island, right?
-Are you crazy?
- I am a divorced man who loved you for 21 years. And from the day I set foot on this island, I have been trying to tell you how much, how madly I love you. Come on, Donna, just for the rest of your life!

8. Elizabeth and John from Nine and a Half Weeks

The film itself, as a predecessor of Fifty Shades of Gray in the matter of romanticizing abuse, is not best example for imitation. John is a woman, forcing her to do things she doesn't want, shifting her boundaries, alienating her from her friends. Even a slightly savvy person in the matter does not confuse his attitude towards Elizabeth with unearthly love and understands that confession is just an attempt to not let the victim off the hook. But, like most abusers, John chooses the right words.

I want you to know. I had many women, a lot of women. But I have never experienced anything like this. Even when I just hug you, I have completely different feelings. I never thought I loved you so much.

9. Chris and Annie from What Dreams May Come

Chris has an accident and then goes to heaven. The children who died several years earlier are waiting for him there. The only thing that darkens the heavenly life is the absence of Annie. He waits patiently for his wife to join him, but she commits suicide and goes to hell. Chris will come down after her to try to save her or stay with her forever. The words he says will change everything.

Forgive me for what I will never give to you again. I won't buy you a meat and gravy sandwich again, you liked them. I'll never make you smile. I wanted us to grow old together, old pepper shakers laughing as their bodies fell apart. Together until the end. Thank you for allowing me to be near you. You were my life. And I can forgive you for the fact that a man would prefer hell to heaven just to be near you.

10. Joel and Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Joel and Clementine's relationship is fireworks. Due to the difference in temperament, they do not always understand each other, so their life together is far from cloudless. However, there are also plenty of happy moments. In one of them, the couple finds themselves outside the city. They lie on the ice of a frozen pond, and Joel says very touching words.

I'm ready to die, Clem, I'm so happy now. This has never happened to me. I'm exactly where I need to be.

11. Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice

Darcy had already confessed his love to Elizabeth, but his marriage proposal was categorically rejected. However, the actions of the main character will soon force the girl to change her opinion about him. The decisive explanation will occur in the rays of sunrise. Mr. Darcy once again confesses his feelings, and Elizabeth reciprocates his feelings.

You are too generous to play with my heart. If your feelings have not changed, tell me immediately. My thoughts remain the same as before. Just one word will silence me. But if your feelings have changed, I will repeat to you that you have captivated my poor soul and I love you. And from this moment I don’t want to part with you.

12. Baby and Johnny from Dirty Dancing

Seventeen-year-old Baby falls in love for the first time. Her chosen one is Johnny, who earns money by giving dance lessons. The girl's father unfairly accuses the man of something he did not do. Baby comes to Johnny to apologize for his father and stays all night.

I'm afraid of everything. I'm afraid of what I see, what I do, myself, but most of all I'm afraid now of leaving this room and never again in my entire life feeling what I feel next to you.

13. Paige and Leo from The Vow

Usually declarations of love are heard towards the end of the film, but in The Vow the wedding scene is one of the first. The characters say touching words to each other, which they will then have to confirm with action.

I vow to be your support in everything. Loving you tenderly and patiently guarding our love. Speak when words are needed and remain silent when words are not needed. I agree to try the carrot cake. Live where your heart feels good and consider it your home.
-You've set the bar too high. I vow to love you passionately now and forever. I promise to keep this feeling and I know: this love is one and for life. And I will always remember that, even if something separates us, we will always find a way to each other.

14. Melvin and Carol from As Good As It Gets

Misanthrope Melvin is a successful writer, but he is better at building relationships with books than with people. Every day he goes to the same cafe, where there is a waitress who can tolerate him - Carol. He becomes attached to a woman. But due to the fact that Melvin does not know how to express his feelings, misunderstanding arises between them. Finally, the man reveals his feelings to Carol, albeit a little awkwardly, but sincerely.

Only I, perhaps, know that you best woman in the world. It seems like I'm the only one who understands how wonderful everything you do is. How delightfully you perceive everything, how you talk to people and how your personality is manifested in almost everything. best qualities: your kindness and honesty. And I think many people don’t notice this. And I am very glad and proud that I was the first to notice this.

15. Captain von Trapp and Maria from The Sound of Music

Maria is preparing to become a nun, but the abbess is not sure that this is her path: the girl has too cheerful a disposition. She is sent as a governess to the house of Captain von Trapp, a widower with seven children. The girl will love both her students and their father, who must marry someone else. At the climax of the love story, Captain von Trapp asks Maria: “Do you think it’s possible to marry someone you don’t love when you have a loved one?” Maria answers him with a song.

I had a hard time as a child, and my youth was quite gloomy. But somewhere out there in the dark past there must have been a moment of truth. Because here you are, standing here, loving me, although you don’t have to. Apparently, in my youth or childhood I did something good and was rewarded for it.

Which declaration of love from the film do you consider worthy of repetition?

I asked Him for one thing. See you. IN last time. And he promised - no more requests. Never. And... I don’t regret it.

Not everyone finds love because they are looking for the perfect one. But this doesn’t happen. True love is imperfect. (Dawson's Creek).

Did you fall in love? Congratulations! This will only lead to one thing: she will never ask for forgiveness. Movie: Love Story

Thanks to all the staff who lived and studied at my school and made it fun all the years of study. School without you is empty and boring. Without love and colors. I would never have gone there if it weren't for these characters. Movie: Never Been Kissed

Film: Kill Bill. Film 1. Love? I've hated you for as long as I can remember. But you still deserve respect.

Love is when, having lost your soul mate, you realize that this is not your soul mate at all. This is all one hundred percent... And it would be better to die than to lose love. /Film: It'll be a good hunt

Having chosen you, I’ll spit on my homeland. I'll cheat on her. But if I don’t give a damn about you, I’ll change my heart... I’ll destroy love. / Masked Man

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Continue reading the quotes and aphorisms of Arthur Schopenhauer on the pages:

And here I stand, my deal burned out. And I'm about to leave. I won't ask you for anything. / Pearl Harbor

He who loves waits. / Love At Large

You just have to try. If you don't try, then you will live your life in vain. / Meet Joe Black

Film: The Painted Veil. When love and duty are one and the same, it is a blessing.

He loves me, Harold. He loves me - and that's the most important thing. / Moulin Rouge

I should have died there.

Find someone you can love like a madman on the loose, and who will love you just as madly.

If you were the only man on Earth, you wouldn’t be able to persuade me to marry you!

I love you without knowing why, why, how or where. /Adams Correction

Love is a minefield, along which you take only one step and are already torn to pieces, back up and... in the most stupid way, take two more steps forward... It seems to me that this is so typical human nature, because loneliness causes bleeding mental wounds, so it’s better to blow on a burnt heart than to be lonely... / Love And Sex

Film: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I will give you not just something, but some of something better than anything...

I was a real fool for leaving you.

Love is a minefield along which you take only one step and are already torn to pieces, back up and... in the most stupid way, take two more steps forward... It seems to me that this is so characteristic of human nature, because loneliness inflicts bleeding mental wounds, so it’s better to blow on a burned heart.

Evelyn, my feelings for you made me survive.

And you wanted to laugh and cry because you felt so happy and scared at the same time that the vision instantly disappeared... / Never Been Kissed

Film: Evan Almighty. When God is asked for patience, does He give patience or the opportunity to show this patience? And the one who asks for courage receives courage or the opportunity to be courageous? When people ask God for a happy family, do you think God showers them with warmth and tenderness or does He give them the opportunity to prove their love?

All that is special about me... is you. / Great Expectations

Don't waste time, it's what life is made of.

Michael, I love you. I have loved you for 9 years.

All my life you have convinced me that I am worth something only because you need me.

Just understand that this feeling comes at the most inopportune time, however, I still ask you to do me a big favor - Choose me. Marry me. Let me make you happy. / My best friend's wedding

Film: The Painted Veil. Women sometimes get the impression that men are much more in love with them than they really are.

Film: Juno and Avos. There is no price for love, there is only one life...

Only deep feeling can push me down the aisle, so I should be an old maid.

But Christian loves me. And I'm scared too.

Still the most cool guy drives the coolest girl to the school porch in the morning.

Everything I do, I do for you.

This is the professional risk of soul mates: one cannot survive without the other!

Can't fall in love? But life without love is simply terrible. / Moulin Rouge

And he is completely sure that every girl is simply obliged to melt in front of him.

While I was in the water, I made a deal with God.

You know, at that moment when you kissed her and everything around was covered in fog...

You made me survive, Evelyn, you brought me home.

And you realized that she was just a toy to whom you offered your kisses for the rest of your life. In one second you received this gift.

And at that very moment, the creature in love, turning on the afterburners, rushed off on a date! (Only old men go into battle)

I was born to kiss you. /Only You

But you were too arrogant and cowardly to understand this.

Forgive me for everything that was and for everything that will be

A lot has been said about love, but still some phrases from films can melt the heart of even the most cynical viewers. The originality and insight of such quotes put them on a par with famous aphorisms and the sayings of great people.

Here are the wisest and most touching phrases from films:

"I?! I'm afraid of everything: what I saw, what I did, who I am, and most of all, leaving this room. This has never happened in my entire life. What I feel next to you” (“Dirty Dancing”, 1987).

These words belong to the main character of the film, Baby (Jennifer Grey). She confided her feelings and fears to dancer Johnny (Patrick Swayze) during the height of their romantic affection.

“Love is a passion, an obsession, when you cannot imagine life without this person. Fall in love with someone, find someone you're crazy about, and he's crazy about you" (Meet Joe Black, 1998).

Such wise quotes make you think about your own life.

The phrase belongs to the main character of the film, William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins). He used it to admonish his daughter Susan (Claire Forlani), opening her heart to new love

"Death can't stop true love. All she can do is put it off for a while" (The Princess Bride, 1987).

The philosophical quote perfectly describes the strength of feelings of the main characters of the film - Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright) and her lover Westley (Cary Elwes).

“When you realize that you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to begin as soon as possible” (“When Harry Met Sally,” 1989).

This witty but touching line comes from Harry (Billy Crystal), who is in love with the charming Sally (Meg Ryan).

“It’s better to smell her hair once, kiss her lips once, than to live forever without her” (“City of Angels”, 1998).

It was with these words that Nicolas Cage's hero Seth, blinded by beauty and wealth, described his feelings. inner world Dr. Rice (Meg Ryan).

“And maybe it will be enough for you to know that those few hours while we were together and loving each other were worth our lives” (“Terminator”, 1984).

Action films can surprise, because they often tell about love that takes your breath away.

The phrase belongs to Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton). She tells it to Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), whom fate had destined for her to meet in the form of the Skynet network.

“It was a lot of colorful pieces of glass. If you put them together, you get a wonderful mosaic. It was as if we were made for each other. I felt it from the first moment our eyes met. I lived in an empty house until she came in and filled it with happiness. As soon as I took her hand to help her out of the car, I felt like a miracle had happened” (“Sleepless in Seattle,” 1993).

A touching confession belongs to Tom Hanks's character Sam, who was caught in a whirlpool of magical and tender feelings for Annie (Meg Ryan).

“I think I would miss you even if we never met” (“Rental Groom”, 2005).

These heartfelt words were said to his beloved Kat (Debra Messing) by Dermot Marlooney's hero and part-time elite escort Nick.

“I love you without knowing how, why or even from where” (“Healer Adams”, 1998).

One of the most sincere cinematic confessions. The phrase belongs to the hero of the legendary actor Robin Williams.

“The general consensus is that we live in a world of hatred and greed. But I disagree. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often love is not very visible and solemn, but it is everywhere. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, lovers, mistresses, bosom friends. IN phone calls from the twin towers that the planes crashed into, there was no hatred or revenge, only declarations of love. And if you look closely, you will suspect that love is really everywhere. Real Love" ("Real Love", 2003).

The quote is heard off-screen at the very beginning of the film, inviting viewers to plunge into the atmosphere of the most romantic film of all time.

“Life is like a book. A book that I love very much...Only now I read it slowly. So the words fall apart, and the spaces between them become endless... I feel you close, I remember every word in the history of our relationship, but more and more often I find myself in the endless space between words, and this space is beyond human world. It is filled with everything that I didn’t even know existed” (“She”, 2013).

These romantic but sad words do not belong to a person, but to the operating system Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), who learned the power of human feelings in the futuristic drama directed by Spike Jonze.

Why do audiences believe every word spoken by actors on screen? Because these phrases resonate in their own hearts.

What romantic phrases about love from films do you remember?

Good films serve as an excellent source of inspiration, they give a boost of energy and motivation to action.

Phrases with deep meaning from great inspiring films

And in my soul I'm dancing (Inside I'm Dancing)

Don't give up. You have no right to give up. Damn, the whole world is in your hands.

1+1 / Intouchables

Don't expect things to get easier, simpler, better. It won't. There will always be difficulties. Learn to be happy right now. Otherwise you won't have time.

August Rush

So only some people hear?
- Only those who listen.

The Pursuit of Happiness
There will always be those who will say that you won’t succeed. Don't listen to anyone if you really want to achieve something. They say it won't work because they couldn't do it themselves.

In Time

If you had a lot of time on the clock, what would you do?
- I would stop watching. I can say one thing, if I had time, I wouldn’t waste it.

Always say “Yes” (Yes Man)

The world is a playground. As a child you know this, but as you get older you begin to forget.

Gattaca

Do you want to understand how I do this? It's very simple - I'm not saving my strength for the way back.

Groundhog Day

The main thing is to take the first step. This is the hardest part.

The Lake House

I pushed away the person who was next to me, who wanted to marry me, ran away from him, and I would like to live my whole life with the person I can’t meet.

Scent of a Woman

Life is a tango, in which the main thing is movement. If you stop, the dance will stop, if you stop, life will stop.

Coco Chanel

Strength is based on failure, not success. I became strong when I swam against the current.

What Dreams May Come

Everyone has their own hell - it doesn’t have to be fire and tar! Our hell is a wasted life!

The Legend of the Pianist (La leggenda del pianista sull’oceano)

Here's the piano. The keyboard starts and ends. There are only 88 keys. They are not infinite. You are infinite, and the music that you extract from the keys is infinite.

Legend No. 17
You must live. Not for the sake of fame and awards. Live and play. And make a choice every day.

Million Dollar Baby

Every day in the world someone dies while sweeping the floor, clearing away dishes, and last thought like, “I didn’t take my chance.”

Changing Reality (The Adjustment Bureau)

You have no free will, only the illusion of freedom. You are free to choose the flavor of toothpaste or brand of wine, but nothing more. Humanity still lacks the wisdom to make important decisions.

Peaceful Warrior

Get the garbage out of your head. Garbage is everything that hides from you the only thing that makes sense... this moment. Here. Now. And when you are here and now, you will be surprised at what you can do and how you can do it.

Areas of Darkness (Limitless)

There are times in life when you know you have crossed your boundaries. Your old life is over. Van Gogh was my frontier. I got my chance.

Haven't played the bucket yet (The Bucket List)
Difficult to recognize value human life... someone will say that it is measured by close people, someone - it can be measured by faith, someone will say - by love, and others do not see the meaning in life at all... Me? - I believe everyone judges themselves by the people who look up to them.

Anger Management

Self-control is the only thing you can't get rid of by losing it.

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Love is conquered only by flight.

Pietro Bembo (XV century)

Love helps you forget about time, time helps you forget about love.

The one who is cured of love first is always cured more completely.

Francois La Rochefoucauld

MEDICINES FOR LOVE:

1. Don't meet him, don't call or write to him.

2. More easy way: Get to know him better.

Wendy Cope

There is no cure for colds or love. They pass on their own.

Yanina Ipohorskaya

Passion: the only disease that can be cured by relapse.

Gerard de Rohan-Chabot

What motivates us to love a woman is how she differs from other women; and what she has in common with them cures us of love.

Jacques Deval

No one has yet been cured of love by good intentions.

Jerzy Broszkiewicz

A man always wants to be a woman's first love. Women are more sensitive in such matters. They would like to become last love men.

Oscar Wilde

-I really like her, but I'm not in love with her.

-And she’s in love with you, although she doesn’t like you very much.

Oscar Wilde

-How long could you love a woman who doesn’t love you?

-Which one doesn’t love? All my life.

Oscar Wilde

Loyalty! Someday I will analyze this feeling. It contains the greed of the owner. We would willingly give up many things if it were not for the fear that someone else would pick it up.

Oscar Wilde

If you are away for a short time, I am ready to wait for you all my life.

Oscar Wilde

I consider superficial people to be those who love only once in their life. Their so-called loyalty and constancy are just lethargy of habit or lack of imagination.

Oscar Wilde

Love married woman- this is a great thing. Married men never dreamed of this.

Oscar Wilde

Those who are faithful in love only have access to its banal essence. The tragedy of love is experienced only by those who cheat.

Oscar Wilde

It is bad if the authorities test their strength through insults; it is bad if respect is acquired through horror: with love you will achieve what you want much sooner than with fear. After all, when you leave, fear will disappear, but love will remain, and as it turns into hatred, so it turns into respect.

Old love, like a wedge with a wedge, you can knock out new love.

Thoughts and aphorisms of the ancient Romans

You can't hide love and a cough.

Thoughts and aphorisms of the ancient Romans

Baths, wine and love completely destroy our body.

But life is also created by baths, wine and love.

Thoughts and aphorisms of the ancient Romans

A woman's film: a film in which a wife cheats on her husband throughout the entire session, and at the end he begs for her forgiveness.

Oscar Levant (1906 – 1972), American pianist and composer

All love scenes that begin with film set, end in the dressing room.

Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980), English film director

The actress's kisses are the most unnerving. You never know – is this serious or just for practice?

Ruth Gordon (1896 – 1985), American actress and playwright

Exchanging kisses on camera means no more than exchanging glances on the street.

Jeanne Moreau (b. 1928), French actress

Love is an elegant golden box containing a carefully hidden bill.

Jan Zachariasevich

Love is the most proven way to overcome shame.

Sigmund Freud

Love is the drug through which popular mythology is able to digest sexuality.

Germaine Greer, Australian feminist

Love: a physiological function that has made a dizzying career.

Julian Tuwim

Love in the form in which it is accepted in our society is just a game of two whims and the contact of two epiderms.

Nicola Chamfort

Love is a game of cards in which both bluff: one to win, the other not to lose.

Henri Renier

Love is a game for two, in which both can win.

Eva Gabor

Love is a game in which he loses, she loses, and only the human race wins.

Andre Prevost

Let's see what platonic love is in sayings and quotes famous people.

Beautiful quotes about love from famous people

The ancient Greeks despised women as the inferior sex. Therefore, it seems to me, such a concept as platonic love arose - Plato also did not like women.

Olga Arnold, psychologist

PLATONIC LOVE: in the meaning of “homosexual love” this expression appeared in Marsilio Ficino (XV century); in the meaning of “ideal love” became widespread in England in the 17th century.

Henryk Markiewicz and Andrzej Romanowski. “Winged Words” (Warsaw, 1998)

Platonic love, of course, is possible, but only between spouses.

"Ladies Home Journal"

Platonic love: sex above the ears.

Tira Sumter Winslow

The greatest power over a man is a woman who, without giving herself to him, is able to make him believe that he is loved.

Maria Ebner-Eschenbach

Beautiful quotes about the love of God

Love for God is the highest form of all forms of love. Phrases about the love of God.

If I speak in the tongues of men and angels, but do not have love, then I am a ringing brass, or a sounding cymbal.

Apostle Paul - 1st letter to the Corinthians, 13, 1

Others think that they have love for God or for Nature, when in fact they have hatred for people.

William Inge (1860 – 1954), British priest

Two people cannot hate each other if they both love God.

From the book by E. Mackenzie “14,000 phrases...”

The one who loves me takes away my freedom. What would fascinate me if I loved God is that God does not reciprocate my love.

Henri de Montherlant (1896 – 1973), French writer

Perfect fear drives out love.

Cyril Connolly (1903 – 1974), English critic

Love for God is the knowledge of God, love for the world is the knowledge of the world, love for man is the knowledge of man.

Nikolai Berdyaev (1874 – 1948), philosopher

In the main thing there is unity, in the secondary thing there is freedom, and in everything there is love.

17th century saying; attributed to Augustine and other Church Fathers

Love for God is more common than love for people because it is cheaper.

Alfred Bougard (1815 – 1882), French historian

Love Quotes from Movies

In life, you should not confuse real love and theatrical love. Quotes about love from films.

An artist must know everything about love and learn to live without it.

Anna Pavlova, ballerina

On stage, the main thing is to be able to laugh and cry at will. If I need to cry, I think about my love affairs. If I need to laugh, I think about my love affairs.

Glenda Jackson, singer

On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand spectators; and then I return home alone.

Janis Joplin, singer

The worst way actors perform love scenes is by falling into banality or exaggeration. Is it because there is no such component in their lives? How rare it is to find what everyone is talking about! It is like the center of a circle that is at rest although everything revolves around it.

Karol Izhikowski

I go to the theater to have fun. I don't need rape, sodomy, incest or drugs on stage. I can get all this at home.

Peter Cook

Every movie should be a thriller, even if it's just a modest one love story.

Bernardo Bertolucci

The South Sea natives do not speak English, but their vocabulary is enough to divide Hollywood films into “bang-bang” and “smack-smack”.

Marlon Brando

There are amazingly timely inventions. For example, large-format cinema appeared just when actors on the screen began to spend most of their time lying down.