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"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Movies

More quotes about Movies

  • "Film spectators are quiet vampires."

    Jim Morrison on Movies

  • "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."

    Johnny Depp on Movies

  • "You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."

    Steve Martin on Movies

  • "This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country."

    Clint Eastwood on Movies

  • "Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."

    Walt Disney on Movies

More quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  • "I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age."

  • "Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them."

  • "The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change."

  • "My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it."

  • "I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."

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