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American Movies Quotes
On growing up with, and making sense of, Hollywood's reach.
These quotes come from people who grew up watching American movies from another country, one recalling a Dutch village where 'The A-Team' and 'Charlie's Angels' filled the gaps, and directors naming Dirty Harry and Sam Peckinpah as formative influences. Read more in Age quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from a little village in the south of Holland where there was nothing to do but watch American movies and television - I grew up with The 'A-Team,' 'Charlie's Angels,' and 'Edward Scissorhands.'
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I began in elementary school, I was able to go to the movies, and that was how I would spend my weekends, watching several movies one after another and almost all of them American movies. This is how I fell in love, at so young an age, with American movies and culture.
- Dirty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was influenced by American movies of the '60s and '70s, especially Don Siegel's 'Dirty Harry' and the films of Sam Peckinpah. And, of course, a lot of the film noir movies of the '40s.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.
- Dub
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned English from watching American movies and American series. And you'd watch the movie the first time and not understand anything. Then you'd watch it again, and you'd start understanding more and more, and that's how I learned English.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.
- American Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see the kind of fistfight choreography that the star would devote four months to shoot.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought about how I didn't have a cell phone or I'm in 2011. I was just so happy to be able to be a character in the 30s and there are these actresses that I really liked in the 40s, 50s and 60s in American movies that I've seen since I was a little girl. But you don't really think like that when you prepare for a role.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.
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- Nov 07, 2020