Best Big Screen Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Working on 'Love Lies Bleeding' meant so much much more to me than just a chance to play a starring role on the big screen. It's my hope that people in the queer community will watch this movie and see reflections of themselves and their experiences.”

“I did my first film Junglee and it became a hit. That film was the first one to bring the real colour on the big screen, which was Eastmancolor.”

“I take it as a compliment when people want to click photos with us. But at times, it is pretty intrusive. People think that because we come on the big screen or on television, they have a right over us.”

“I am very different in real life as compared to whatever people have seen of me on the big screen.”

“I want to see myself dancing on the big screen.”

“I made my debut on big screen, and many thanks to my mentor T. Rajendhar for introducing me to films.”

“I was 12 when I decided that I wanted to see myself on the big screen.”

“Not all stories are meant for the big screen.”

“Whether it's Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire or 'West Side Story,' see it on the big screen. That's the way we should appreciate it.”

“I can't live without my 15-inch MacBook Pro. I drag it everywhere I go. I love having a big screen with me at all times, especially in transit.”

“Even if it flops, when you're sitting at the drawing table, you dream about seeing your work on the big screen, no matter what.”

“I've seen a few games - in the summer I used to ride down to the beach in Bournemouth and watch England on a big screen but normally I'm not watching football.”

“The big screen and the small screen are two very different mediums - they are perceived differently by people.”

“My karma doesn't seem to be a big screen karma: it's definitely a little-screen karma.”

“It does not mean that in the process of a small screen, I do small acting, or if I do a big screen project, I do big acting. For the actor, it does not matter.”

“Whatever I do, no matter it's for television, web or the big screen - it should satisfy me as an actor.”

“I had seen 'Pithamagan' at the big screen in 2003. I was moved by the story and especially the character played by Vikram.”

“TV is great, and I love it, but to watch somebody's hand-crafted drawings on the big screen is an experience that we've forgotten as an audience, how much fun 2D can be.”

“Acting on a digital platform is similar to the big screen.”

“As an actor, I am extremely fortunate to portray Milkha Singh on the big screen.”

“In the old nuclear age, you could sit under a big screen under a mountain in Colorado, and you could see where the missiles were coming from.”

“If you watch any show that stars white people, white people aren't coming up to them like, 'Thank you for showing my face on the big screen.' Because they see their faces in popular culture all the time.”

“I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema... But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made.”

“Going to a theatre and watching yourself on the big screen is a nightmare.”

“Television is a big platform for actors, and so many actors have made it to films from there. And for me, too, it has been a great transition from the small screen to the big screen.”

“I feel so lucky to partner with Awesomeness to bring my story to the big screen. I started out making videos as a way to connect and am thrilled by the opportunity to share one of the most exhilarating years of my life.”

“We want to make movies for the big screen. We want people to go to the theater and feel like they're watching a movie.”

“If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.”

“I wouldn't mind doing my own film on the big screen. That'd be cool.”

“To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.”

“Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.”

“I like to direct for the big screen.”

“I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.”

“I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.”

“Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.”

“Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen.”

“It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that.”

“If I hear that a film of mine is going to be shown on a big screen somewhere and I haven't seen it in a while, I make a point to get to see it. I just want to see it up on the big screen.”

“I would love to play Wonder Woman on the big screen.”

“When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.”

“I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.”

“There are certain films you want to see on the big screen.”

“While growing up, I always wanted to see myself on the big screen - more so because there were no laptops then, and viewing on mobile was a far-fetched dream.”

“I have been working for both the small and the big screen and I found advantage in both of them and disadvantage in none.”

“There'll always be movies that are meant for the big screen, and they should be seen that way.”

“I would love to do a love story or a socially relevant drama. Something on the lines of Netflix originals. I would love to explore the big screen, too.”

“You can't stop people watching on mobiles, but I hope the old fashioned idea of sitting in a dark room with a big screen with a group of strangers lives on forever.”

“I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.”

“For actors, we always feel like there shouldn't be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates the idea that if you're such-and-such an actor, you can't be on the big screen.”

“The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.”

“I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.”

“I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.”

“I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.”

“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”

“I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.”

“It looks different seeing yourself on the big screen.”

“I hope 'Chess' will hit the big screen. It seems a natural to me. Good venues, tunes, and politics.”

“I was very introverted as a child and as an adult. But something inside told me that I needed to express myself, and it would be on the big screen.”

“I remember watching David Beckham scoring that free-kick at Old Trafford to take England to a World Cup. Things like that stick with you. I was at Southsea, waiting to board a hovercraft for the Isle of Wight. We ended up missing it because we were more interested in watching the big screen.”

“I don't want to be a grumpy old man or too pessimistic, because if I have a chance, I would prefer to watch a film in the cinema with an audience on a big screen instead of watching it on a cell phone. It's a very different experience, but somehow I think this form will have its own future and life.”

“Superstar,' my first Gujarati film is a game changer for the Gujarati film industry. When I saw it on the big screen, I had goosebumps.”

“What I view as worship now is certainly a little different than how I used to view worship. I don't see it as a verse in a chorus, on a big screen with words, like I used to. It's just trying to be as real as possible in front of an audience.”

“What someone does when viewing content on a tablet is different than the lean-back mentality of watching on the big screen.”

“I went through a phase of deep introspection. I realised that while doing films back to back, I was getting burnt out and not concentrating on quality. I wasn't preparing for my role and was working like a machine. When I saw the result on the big screen, I felt that the work I'd done was horrible.”

“There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.”

“Cinema might have it's share of ups and downs, it can't go. It is a very major part of everybody's life. It is a process like going to cinema halls, watching films on the big screen.”

“When you walk into the cinema you have to switch your phones off, you get involved with the big screen, you cry with the film, you laugh with the film. It actually drives the message home far stronger than when you quickly see it on your phone.”

“I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years.”

“I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.”

“I was approached for acting roles when I was young. I had said that I look into the mirror every day and don't think my face suits for the big screen. So I will not do the films.”

“Innumerable lovers of Hindi cinema have lit up the big screen. But on screen, they are just two beautiful bodies. They have no caste nor religion. The love that our filmmakers imagined was little more than make-believe.”

“Every four or five films we've made a film that has gone on TV first. It's quite nice to tap into the TV audience, but it is nice to see it on the big screen too.”

“If I feel like a night in, or if I have an early plane to catch, I like to make some chai tea and snack on dark chocolate while watching a movie on my projector and big screen. I'm crazy about all kinds of movies, especially the classic Steven Spielberg ones or 'The Godfather.'”

“It is very difficult for us to establish identity in films. It is not easy to break through your stereotype image from television and form a new identity on the big screen.”

“I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.”

“Who doesn't wants to be seen on the big screen? But that doesn't mean I will be a part of any project. TV has given me recognition, and I need to live up to the expectation of my audience.”

“In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It's almost like an over-acting type thing - whereas on the big screen, you're 35 feet and they've got a close-up of you to put it on the screen in the movie house. At 35 feet, it's more subtlety than the overboard drama that we do in pro wrestling.”

“TV actors are doing great in Bollywood. We have our own market, our own fans, who love to see us on the big screen.”

“You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.”

“Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together.”

“Under a pulsating full moon, the gussied-up Billie Jean King National Tennis Center seems much softer and prettier at night, with the fountains bubbling and fans without tickets to the big stadium sitting in the plaza and watching a big screen.”

“I look like a winner, I smell like a winner, so why not put it on the big screen?”

“There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.”

“When you show people on the big screen that could be our next-door neighbour or our cousin, it does have an impact on our lives.”

“Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.”

“I saw 'Dracula,' 'Frankenstein,' 'The Wolf Man,' 'The Invisible Man.' I saw all those guys on the big screen at RKO in the Bronx. I just always loved that stuff. I loved other stuff, too. That's the thing. That wasn't all I wanted to be.”

“I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!”

“I don't really look at stats or whatever. You see them on the big screen. But other than that, I don't pay too much attention to it. I did know about my dad's home run total. Other than that, I don't like to know. It's pointless. Whether you know or don't know, you don't want to think about it. You just want to go out and play the game.”

“I hadn't been on the big screen in 40 years when I did the horror film 'Fright Night,' so during production of 'Bros,' I just kept pinching myself and thinking how lucky I was to be a part of an all-gay cast and with a film that makes such a powerful statement.”

“I hope to bring fresh ideas to the big screen.”

“While there are films that are made for theatres, there are only so many projects that would get a chance to release on the big screen. And now, OTT is that other platform to showcase your work, create more content. It's definitely a blessing.”

“I wanted to be an entertainer; I wanted to be on the big screen. I loved the cameras and the lights.”

“'Okja' I don't think would have been made if Netflix hadn't made it. That, to me, is a much bigger thing than whether someone watches it on a big screen or a phone. Because it simply wouldn't have existed otherwise.”

“If you are good and talented, people will want to see you on the big screen.”

“Small screen or big screen my job on set doesn't really change. The only difference with TV is I get to be surprised with new information just like the audience every time I get a script.”

“Sanjay Dutt is meant to be for the big screen.”

“Billy Graham that the world saw on television or saw on the big screen was the same Billy Graham that we saw at home. He wasn't two people.”

“I don't see a difference between the big screen and the small one. We are entertainers, and the medium doesn't matter.”

“I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.”

“I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?”