P. J. Soles Quotes

I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

I love films that aren't just speaking to certain moments in the culture but are something that people can revisit.

I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening.

I feel old films should not be remade.

The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.

I'm proud to have been in some of the films that continue to be a special part of people's lives.

I think most fans of movies that have withstood the test of time don't like for them to be tinkered with. I think that's a pretty general consensus. You like to remember what you started with.

When I was a kid, I used to watch all those Sunday afternoon matinees featuring all the Hollywood greats.

I saw 'The Sting' about 35 times and 'Jeremiah Johnson' and 'Billy Jack' about 50 times.

I've really been blessed to have these roles in movies that will last forever.

I like film. I'm old fashioned.

There weren't a lot of 'Singin' in the Rain' fans in my age group.

I'm a big fan of old Hollywood.

Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.

If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

Every couple of years we'll watch the movie and it's like watching home movies, seeing the ranch on-screen. But that movie Heaven's Gate, people are appreciating it more and more as time goes on.

I absolutely love genre movies. When I was a kid, I was really impacted by genre films and cult classics.

My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Brothers movies, or Chaplin movies, and a lot of westerns.

I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch.

I started taking acting classes when I was 14. That's when I knew I wanted to try it professionally. Before that, I watched movies, always, but I didn't think it was a real job. I watched Turner Classic Movies with my parents. I've always loved the old classics.

My first job ever, I was 14 years old - I was working at this mom-and-pop video store, and they basically paid me by allowing me to take home as many movies as I wanted, and that's how I started watching all the classics and really getting into it.

I'm a Turner Classic Movies guy. That's it. I'd much rather sit here and watch an oldie than anything new.