Jason Patric famous quotes

03-28-2025

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
-- Jason Patric

#Passion #People #Dollars
I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If Id wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasnt worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.
-- Jason Patric

#Kind #Boring #Speed
Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.
-- Jason Patric

#Hollywood #Film #Mainstream
I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.
-- Jason Patric

#Interesting #Want #Made
I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.
-- Jason Patric

#Independent #Movement
You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.
-- Jason Patric

#Office #Dollars #Cruise
If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not.
-- Jason Patric

#Knowing #Today
It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.
-- Jason Patric

#Stars #Shoes #Easy
Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.
-- Jason Patric

#Vanity #Important #Lines
When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.
-- Jason Patric

#Looks #Actors #Way
I dont have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
-- Jason Patric

#Successful #Problem #Fame
Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.
-- Jason Patric

#Interesting #Suffering
Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.
-- Jason Patric

#Training #Hollywood #Hollywood Movies
When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.
-- Jason Patric

#Actors #Research
I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.
-- Jason Patric

#Giving Up #Enough #Turned Down
I try to stay under the radar.
-- Jason Patric

#Stay Strong #Strong #Trying
I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.
-- Jason Patric

#Scary #Healthy #Unqualified
I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
-- Jason Patric

#Business #Exhibitionism #Problem
I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.
-- Jason Patric

#Unhappy #Three #Speed
Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.
-- Jason Patric

#Stink
I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.
-- Jason Patric

#Needs #Good Enough #Enough
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
-- Jason Patric

#People #Directors #Use
I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.
-- Jason Patric

#Thinking #Games #Usa
It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.
-- Jason Patric

#Vocabulary #Interesting #Helping
I think thats what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.
-- Jason Patric

#Real #Character #Thinking

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