Mahershala Ali Quotes

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'

I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'

If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.

I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.

For some reason, I skipped the original 'Star Wars.' I don't know why, and I'm very embarrassed.

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.

I think, having done 'The Princess Diaries,' it was a fun experience, and it's cool to have made fans that are now into all this music. That movie is still so relevant to our culture. It's always on. It's kind of a rare, nostalgic thing. I get tweets all the time about it.

It's very surreal. It seems like everywhere I go, people always talk about 'Indiana Jones,' and I realized over the years it has made a huge impact on their childhoods... I feel very fortunate to be a part of this.

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

Friends would ask, 'Have you seen 'The Godfather?' and I'd be like, 'No.'

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

I think one of the reasons 'The Karate Kid' film has stood the test of time, aside from 'Get him a body bag,' 'Sweep the leg,' catching flies with chopsticks, all of that stuff that's become pop culture, is that it worked on a human level.

It's a rare film that has staying power. 'A Christmas Story' is not just a funny movie but something that connects with people.

In my office, we were talking about the fact that they'd announced a remake of 'A Star is Born,' and I was bemoaning the idea of a fourth remake. And the young guys who work in my office were giving me blank looks, like, 'What's 'A Star is Born?'

I haven't seen 'The Empire Strikes Back' - I'm not gonna lie.

I never saw 'Home Alone.'

I was obsessed with 'The Wizard of Oz.'

I saw 'A New Hope' on my Vidamax because I came a little late to the party.

It's a phenomenon how 'Grease' is so popular; it really is.

'Grease' is the most successful thing I've ever been part of. It spans generations.

People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'

I've never seen 'E.T.'