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Jai Ganesh

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Box Office Quotes

Box Office Quotes

1. Prior to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - the first one in 2003 - I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I'm saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures. - Johnny Depp

2. When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office. - Jackie Chan

3. The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. - Tom Hanks

4. I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success. - Rani Mukerji

5. I don't think a film has ever worked at the box office because of a star. - Govinda

6. People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less. - Johnny Depp

7. Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set. - Jessica Lange

8. My first film was a big dud at the box office, and my second film did decently. I used to wonder how it would feel to have a hit film. I thought I'd be larger than life, but I'm not feeling anything I imagined. It's a completely different experience. - Shraddha Kapoor

9. Often, in the movie business, they need somebody who will garner box office because they need to pay for the movie. So the people who are in movies that make a lot of money are the people who most often get cast in studio pictures. In my career, I've never been a box office name. - Holly Hunter

10. In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much. - Holly Hunter

11. Film is not just about the art form but also how it fares at the box office. - Tamannaah

12. I am happy that most of my films did good business and either set or broke records at the box office. - Asin.

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