Provocative Movie Quotes

The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and roll bad boy whose 14 films glorified sex, drugsa nd cigarettes. Eszterhas also fought publicly with producers and politicians. In 1995 he argued that some of the misdeeds of the Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations were more obscene than anything in an "R" rated movie. ~ David Shuster

Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think that's all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it. ~ Joshua Michael Stern

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. ~ J. Hoberman

I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing. ~ Judy Dater

I thought I could get everyone's attention by coming up with something that's provocative. ~ Seungri

Personally, I try to be provocative but not needlessly provocative in my work. ~ Steve Breen

I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars. ~ George Meyer

There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality. ~ Roger Vadim

A good quotation must be provocative; as provocative as to demolish an old wrong castle in the mind with a single strike! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative. ~ Maggie Gyllenhaal

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells! ~ John Densmore

People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer. ~ Madonna Ciccone

What we got here is a failure to communicate. ~ Paul Newman

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on. ~ Rupert Murdoch

A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level. ~ Eleanor Brown

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people. ~ Marc Maron

I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married. ~ Madonna Ciccone

Open the pod bay doors, Hal. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal. ~ Rob Bell

The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . a provocative and original philosophical genius. ~ John D. Caputo

It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right. ~ Lyall Watson

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new. ~ David LaChapelle

I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.' ~ M.I.A.

It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly no such general proposition can be sustained. Quite the contrary ... The provocative nature of the communication does not make it any the less expression. Indeed, the whole theory of free expression contemplates that expression will in many circumstances be provocative and arouse hostility. The audience, just as the speaker, has an obligation to maintain physical restraint. ~ Thomas I. Emerson

I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image, but it's not insincere. You just can't take it seriously. ~ Madonna Ciccone

I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently. ~ Kathryn Bigelow

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. ~ Adrian Mitchell

I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that. ~ Jason Isaacs

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear. ~ Jamais Cascio

I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking. ~ Judy Dater

Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection. ~ Deborah Harkness

I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak. ~ Lady Gaga

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time. ~ Toni Morrison

To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well. ~ Carrie Brownstein

Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and other curious nooks and crannies of ancient worlds and modern times. ~ Ivars Peterson

All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves. ~ Lynn Margulis

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie. ~ Will Smith

Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity. ~ Tariq Ramadan

I'm going to be a great movie star some day. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament. ~ Frans De Waal

Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief ... As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought. ~ Janet Lembke

Never judge a book by its movie. ~ J. W. Eagan

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

Bangkok 8 is one of the most startling and provocative mysteries that I've read in years. The characters are marvelously unique, the setting is intoxicating and the plot unwinds in dark illusory strands, reminiscent of Gorky Park. Once I started, I didn't want to put it down. ~ Carl Hiaasen

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person. ~ Pope Francis

With all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business? ~ Lynda Obst

Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has written two or maybe three great books, and his latest, The Map and the Territory, is one of them. ~ Bret Easton Ellis

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared. ~ Dorothy Allison

Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! ~ Michael Caine

Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter. ~ Diane Kruger

All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars. ~ Gore Vidal

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible. ~ Stan Lee

If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance. ~ Jabari Asim

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way. ~ Kathleen Turner

I am looking for movies that are actually about something and that are questioning something. Movies that are provocative in some way and I am also looking for roles that I think will force me to grow or learn something about myself or the world in order to play them well. ~ Maggie Gyllenhaal

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist. ~ Milla Jovovich

The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions. ~ Mason Cooley

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be. ~ Lindsay Lohan

I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry. ~ Marc Jacobs

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant. ~ Erin Morgenstern

It is a pro-U.N. movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a movie people should be watching and not denigrating. ~ Scott Ritter

You can't handle the truth! - Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men. ~ Aaron Sorkin

Lombardi: [to his assistant] Could you get us some writing paper, please.
Eli: A lot of it. A whole lot of it. ~ Book Of Eli Movie

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie. ~ Shane Black

'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' and 'Epic Movie' and 'Date Movie' and that isn't what I wanted. I wanted to do a movie that was just grounded in a reality that went to crazy places. ~ Marlon Wayans

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie. ~ Taylor Lautner

You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it's down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of view, the movie has to stand alone. ~ Martin Campbell

This place is just a trailer for a film, Brandon. Our lives here. Heaven is like the movie. Except there's only one trailer before the movie. And the movie won't ever end. ~ Travis Thrasher

I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world. ~ Aaron Eckhart

I'll grab my crotch at you. It's a greeting, like hello, only more provocative and inviting. ~ Jarod Kintz

You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading. ~ Jim Gaffigan

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself. ~ Michael Caine

I'm a believer in screening movies early, and using the movie itself to help sell the movie. If you can't do that, I feel like you shouldn't be releasing the movie. ~ Jason Blum

Eli: People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now. ~ Book Of Eli Movie

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie. ~ Zach Braff

You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn't mean people are gonna go see it. It's been proven time and time again. ~ John Slattery

Oh look at that...I've been Impaled ~ Frozen Movie Olaf

The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one. ~ Elvis Presley

You can't please everyone ... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters. ~ Matthew Vaughn

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented. ~ Ron Perlman

If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative. ~ Donald Rumsfeld

Eli: I walk by faith, not by sight. ~ Book Of Eli Movie

Eli: In all these years I've been carrying it and reading it every day, I got so caught up in keeping it safe that I forgot to live by what I learned from it. ~ Book Of Eli Movie

Truth is found at the bottom of a bottomless pit. Jerome Facher - A Civil Action. ~ Jonathan Harr

Hijack Leader: [cradling wrist where Eli has severed his hand] What are you standing around for? Kiss him!
Hijacker: What'd he say?
Eli: He's in shock. I think he meant Kill Him. ~ Book Of Eli Movie

She didn't love the movie as a movie, but she appreciated it as a familiar comfort. ~ Joseph Fink

The person who goes to the Troma movie knows that he or she may love the Troma movie or, he or she may hate the Troma movie; but the movie goer knows that he or she will never forget the Troma movie. ~ Lloyd Kaufman

There are some young women movie stars who are doing it everywhere, smoking in every movie, sometimes even with placements with a pack of cigarettes. ~ Joe Eszterhas

I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock. ~ Julia Roberts

Regardless of religion (or lack thereof), lovers of speculative fiction will swallow up these provocative stories. - Erin O'Riordan, ~ Tim Lieder

Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie? ~ Paul Feig

I enjoy provocative things that are questionable. ~ Michael Douglas

Solara: I want to come with you.
Eli: No, you don't.
Solara: I hate it here.
Eli: Then change it. ~ Book Of Eli Movie

The provocative sight of her hands on her body had made him so hard he was ready to pound nails. ~ Lisa Eugene

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star. ~ Shah Rukh Khan

I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump ... I like that guy. I've been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you. ~ Jack Ma

If one of your best friends is making a Star Wars movie, you're not gonna not abuse that privilege. I defy anybody to say otherwise! ~ Simon Pegg

Don't worry, William. I've seen the future, and this all works out reasonably well...

- From Almost Famous, 2000 ~ Movie Quote

When you go to a movie, you don't care for one Oscar, really. Do you care if a guy got a Oscar on the shelf or is it a good movie? And, you don't care how much the movie made. ~ Ice Cube