Historical Movies Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to sink into the unpredictability of a cross-cultural life, yes, but I also wanted a bona-fide home. This was a season of refinement, of acknowledging there were multiple sides to me that were equally true.

I was infected with an incurable sense of wanderlust, but I was also a homebody. I matured into adulthood when I acknowledged this truth. — Tsh Oxenreider

Alana Marks had always known she was different. From her gypsy childhood, to the way she now made her living in the movies, she'd always lived on the edge. She'd been paid to leap from a sixteenth story window, roll a car to a cliff edge, get thrown off a speeding train and dragged into a river by a runaway horse. At the moment, she was about to set herself on fire and jump out of a burning barn. — Barbara Kyle

(On period costume posture coaching
We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out. — Emma Thompson

I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies. — Colm Feore

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France

The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates — Jay Bilas

When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined. — Olivier Theyskens

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies. — Tony Kushner

Regular chiropractic adjustments go hand in hand with good health. — Peter Fonda

I tried to cheer her up. We watched movies in bed. I sang to her even - though I sang like shit. And when she was too tired to read ... I read to her. Her stupid historical romance books. About dukes and London and far away kingdoms that no longer existed in society. She loved it. So I loved it. — Rachel Van Dyken

I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that we've trashed our education institutions beyond repair, people fear that the only people are getting their histories is through the movies, so the elephant in the room is that no one wants to talk about why we're so passionately obsessed with accuracy. — Nicholas Meyer

I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history. — Asghar Farhadi

I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon. — Bert Blyleven

Which is an interactive sport for our family, since Gil likes to groan over the writing and point out the plot twists ahead of time, and Jeremy tears his hair out over the historical inaccuracies, and Dad makes corny jokes, till Mom reminds us, loudly, that some people are trying to watch the movie. Then we'll all quiet down for about five minutes, until Olivia remarks that the costume designer should have dressed the star in kitten heels instead, because it's a lot harder to run in stilettos. — Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

We all have an extended family, people whom we recognize as our own as soon as we see them. — James Lee Burke

So is there a cure?' I asked.
'It's not a disease,' he explained. 'It doesn't need curing. It's just how you are — John Elder Robison

I am intimidated by that eyeliner in a pot. You have to take a brush and wet it and then dip it in and get it straight. It's just a mess. — Tyra Banks

Justice is the soul of the universe. — Omar Khayyam

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since. — Emma Thompson

I would like to be in tons of different types of movies and do different things. I like action movies, and with 'Mr. Peabody and Sherman', I got to see a historical movie, too. — Max Charles

myself under control. — Jim Butcher

Everyone loves the underdog. Until they have to take his side. — Philipp Meyer

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic. — Eli Roth

The only revenge worth having is success. — Gertrude Atherton

I worry about exposing him to bands like Journey, the appreciation of which will surely bring him nothing but the opprobrium of his peers. Though he has often been resistant - children so seldom know what is good for them - I have taught him to appreciate all the groundbreaking musicmakers of our time - Big Country, Haircut 100, Loverboy - and he is lucky for it. His brain is my laboratory, my depository. Into it I can stuff the books I choose, the television shows, the movies, my opinion about elected officials, historical events, neighbors, passersby. He is my twenty-four-hour classroom, my captive audience, forced to ingest everything I deem worthwhile. He is a lucky, lucky boy! And no one can stop me. — Dave Eggers

I have balls too. Mine are 3 feet up and multifunctional! — Sassy Sipe

Life is never fast track. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Us bitches have to stick together. — Elle Casey

With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that events been conflated and that liberties have been taken, characters ditto, dates rearranged. But people don't seem to understand that movies are fictions, they are dramatizations, at least historical movies, and we should accord the moviemakers some of the same understanding and latitude. When you go to a movie you know it's a dramatization and not history. — Nicholas Meyer

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life. — Dante Ferretti

Fairy tales only happen in movies.
-George Melies
from The Invention of Hugo Cabret — Brian Selznick

History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. — A.E. Samaan