Shirley Temple Quotes

At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something to cheer themselves up. They fell in love with a dog and a little girl. It won't happen again.

I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.

I suppose movie theaters are the churches of the modern age, where we gather reverently to worship the tinsel gods of Hollywood.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

I was always a big James Franco fan.

I accredit animals for keeping me going when times were bad.

I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.

The whole point of movie glamour was - and is - escape.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.

Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollywood. She was in love with the style and glamour. Sometimes she would come with me to the cinema in the afternoons, and she would say things like, 'I wouldn't mind a peck with Gregory.'

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.