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picspam: marion cotillard

2009-09-07T18:44:21Z

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picspam: james franco

2009-08-09T03:18:27Z

This is dedicated to illuminants and echofades. ILY BOTH ♥ ♥ ♥

“A lot of things can be read into it, but essentially it's about the desire to be an artist and what a struggle that is. It's about everything. You've got issues of being a man, finding meaning and the struggle to express oneself. The sad thing is that sometimes someone doesn't really have the talent or the voice to do that.”

Freaks and Geeks

“When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.”

Spider-Man 1-3

“Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged, and it's more of a challenge, I think, to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.”

Pineapple Express

“I have had people come up to me in cafés and say, ‘Hey, you’re James Franco, right? Hey, I can’t get hold of my guy—do you know where I can buy some good weed?’ Even in class I’ve had someone come up to me and be, ‘Hey! What’s up, man?’ and give me a handshake and palm me a little bag of weed.”

“I’ll admit I was not a team player. A lot of it, I think, just had to do with being obnoxious when the camera was on someone else. Maybe I’d eat a banana in the background that would take focus away from other actors. I didn’t think about it that way, but now I could say, ‘Look, the scene’s not about me, it’s about them, just chill out, James. Don’t eat a fucking banana..”

Milk

“The first kiss of the movie was out on Haight Street, with, like, 200 people watching, outside. I’m sure in the end it will be a really cool shot, but it starts close and then it takes maybe a minute. That’s a long time on film with everybody watching, and, like, a fake moustache getting in your mouth. It was long enough that you couldn’t help but thinking, 'Oh, my God, I’m kissing Spicoli.'”

“I just think about people who say, 'He’s 30 years old and he's in college—how hard's that?' Well, I'm taking more classes than you ever took, so fuck you.”

And to end off this post ONTD style:

To my flist - sorry I've been posting nothing but picspams lately. I'll update with something you guys actually care about soon. :)

picspam: blake lively

2009-08-03T21:23:31Z

“I'm a shy person. there's nothing better than staying home and watching good movies. Some people want to go out and dance every night. I want to sit at home, cuddle, and bake cookies.”

“I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don't want to be going to a club and taking off my panties.”

“Serena does have a past of being a bit wild, but what's interesting is that even though she's so young, she realizes that the way she's been living her life is wrong. It just makes her a cool person, that she's able to see that and wants to change.”

“My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.”

“The biggest thing I've noticed is they kind of want everybody to be their character. Like Leighton dating Chace, and me and Leighton hating each other. Those are our characters on the show – that's not us in real life.”

“When you’re saying these words that people are making you say to one another, nothing about it is real or genuine. So if two people connect outside their characters, then that’s how they get together.”

“I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats! ”

“If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.”

picspam: marlon brando

2009-07-21T03:05:22Z

“Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.”

“There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.”

A Streetcar Named Desire
“Kowalski was always right, and never afraid. He never wondered, he never doubted. His ego was very secure. And he had the kind of brutal agressiveness that I hate. I'm afraid of it. I detest the character.”

“The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.”

“With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.”

On the Waterfront
“Everybody feels like he could have been a contender, he could have been somebody, everybody feels as though he's partly bum, some part of him. He is not fulfilled and he could have done better, he could have been better. Everybody feels a sense of loss about something. That was what touched people.”

“An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.”

“I'm one of those people who believes that if I'm very good in this life I'll go to France when I die.”

The Wild One

“Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.”

The Godfather

“I went home and did some rehearsing to satisfy my curiosity about whether I could play an Italian. I put on some makeup, stuffed Kleenex in my cheeks and worked out the characterization first in front of a mirror, then on a television monitor. After working on it, I decided I could create a characterization that would support the story. The people at Paramount saw the footage and liked it, and that's how I became the Godfather.”

“I had a great deal of respect for Don Corleone; I saw him as a man of substance, tradition, dignity, refinement, a man of unerring instinct who just happened to live in a violent world and who had to protect himself and his family in this environment. I saw him as a decent person regardless of what he had to do, as a man who believed in family values and was shaped by events just like the rest of us.”

“An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.”

Last Tango in Paris

“Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.”

Apocalypse Now

“This is a false world. It's been a struggle to try to preserve my sanity and sense of reality taken away by success. I have to fight hard to preserve that sense of reality so as to bring up my children. ”

“I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armour because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.”

“Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.”

“Other actors don't go around discussing who is the best actor in the world, because it's obvious - Marlon Brando is.” - Jack Nicholson

“Marlon Brando was more than a uniquely gifted and influential actor. He was also an aroused citizen with broad social perspectives. Generous with his friendship and candid personal insights, he was an endlessly entertaining good neighbor.” - Warren Beatty

“Brando acted with an empathy and an instinctual understanding that not even the greatest technical performers could possibly match.” - Laurence Olivier

“Marlon Brando had an innate shrewdness, finding ways to do things better than everyone else. He really was the godfather to young actors coming up in the seventies and even today. He was the guy, really, more than Olivier, or anybody.” - Robert Duvall

“Marlon revolutionized acting. He changed it. He changed everything.” - Johnny Depp

“Anyone of my generation who says he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.” - James Caan

“He was deeply rebellious against the bourgeois spirit, the over-ordering of life.” - Elia Kazan

“The Bud who blossomed into a superstar, the champion who called himself a bum, the artist who denied his art, remains a dominant presence in contemporary cinema. Another generation has taken over, and it's members are still 'doing Brando.' The generations that follow are likely to be doing him for the rest of the century - and beyond.” - Stefan Kanfer

picspam: the godfather

2009-05-03T01:13:13Z

The Godfather is one of my favourite movies, starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino and directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1972. It has since then made its way on countless best movie lists and set a new standard for cinema. I hadn't touched photoshop in months before this, and this is my first picspam, but this took me a shitload of time, so comments would be appreciated. :)

"I understand. You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, you made a good living. The police protected you and there were courts of law. So you didn't need a friend like me. Now you come and say "Don Corleone, give me justice." But you don't ask with respect. You don't offer friendship. You don't even think to call me "Godfather." You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money."

"My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse."
"What was that?"
"Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract. That's a true story...that's my family Kay, that's not me."

"They want to have a meeting with me, right? It will be me, McClusky and Sollozzo. Let's set the meeting. We get our informants to find out where it's going to be held. Now we insist that it be held in a public place, a bar or a restaurant where there'll be other people there so I'll feel safe. They're going to search me when I first meet them, right? So I can't have a weapon on me. But if Clemenza can figure a way to have a weapon planted for me...then I'll kill them both."

"In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns."

"I want no inquiries made. I want no acts of vengeance. I want you to arrange a meeting with the heads of the Five Families. This war stops now."

"But I'm a superstitious man. And if some unlucky accident should befall him - If he should get shot in the head by a police officer, or if he should hang himself in his jail cell - or if he's struck by a bolt of lightning, them I'm going to blame some of the people in this room, and that I do not forgive. But, that aside, let me say that I swear, on the souls of my grandchildren, that I will not be the one to break the peace we've made here today."

"My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator."
"Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed."

"I knew Santino was going to have to go through all this and Fredo... well, Fredo was... But I never wanted this for you. I live my life, I don't apologize to take care of my family. And I refused to be a fool dancing on the strings held by all of those big shots. That's my life, I don't apologize for that. But I always thought that when it was your time that you would be the one to hold the strings. Senator Corleone. Governor Corleone. Something. Well, there wasn't enough time, Michael. There just wasn't enough time."

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2007-02-23T06:30:19Z

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