Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cavett

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

Alan Cumming

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

John Grant

Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame.

Bette Davis

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

Lou Holtz

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Lou Holtz

Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.

Frank Sinatra

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

John Lahr

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

Miranda Richardson

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

Alan Rickman

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

Alan Moore

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

Alan Bennett

My films are about embarrassment.

Alain Resnais

I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.

Alain Resnais

For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

Akira Kurosawa

The great appeal of film is its relatability.

Akira Kurosawa

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

David Shapiro

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

Bryce Dallas Howard

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

David Alan Grier

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

David Spade

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

Darrell Hammond

I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

Jennifer Bini Taylor

While growing up, every sitcom you could think of, I would watch it, and I loved it.

Jamie Foxx

Yeah, the sitcom world is dead. It's all reality.

Eric Andre

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

Ken Jeong

Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.

Will Estes

I loved doing sitcoms.