Robert Osborne Quotes

I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those.

As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

I fell in love with 'Ben Hur' when I was 8 years old, and I just knew I had to be involved in movies, even if I was the guy who melted the butter on the popcorn.

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

I didn't grow up watching movies and thinking, 'Oh, I wanna be in those!'

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

I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

If you love movies, then you love America.

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

Two of my favorite actresses are Meryl Streep and Angelina Jolie. So, I would love, love, love to work with them. But I also really love AnnaSofia Robb. There are a lot of great actresses I would love to work with.

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

I love acting, every job is a dream job when you're an actor. I'd like to do eventually more film work and to collaborate with the best actors and directors in film.

I want to direct films, ultimately. Hopefully I'll have a fantastic career in acting and then go on to do that. That's my dream; that's the ultimate goal.

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

It's so odd because I don't even know if I'm cut out for it, but being a movie star guy, I sort of end up gravitating toward the Coen brothers. That's one of the reasons my wife and I moved to L.A.: that however much of a pipe dream that would be, I moved to L.A. because I'd love to work with the Coen brothers.

I love making movies.

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.