Scene Quotes - Page 29

• I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

  Orlando Bloom

  Character, Thinking, Remember

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• On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'

  Michael Bloomberg

  Rushing, Burning, Alive

  Address in Support of Religious Tolerance and New York City Mosque, delivered 3 August 2010, Governors Island, New York

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• Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

  Daniel Boone

  Country, Memorable, Adventure

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.2, Applewood Books

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• The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mom, America, Space

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• I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a safe assessment of who I am. I've lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin' that life.

  Luke Bryan

  Growing Up, Boys, College

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• Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.

  Sandra Bullock

  Fun, Powerful, Poop

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• It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Drinking, Beer, Touching

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• In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

  Steve Buscemi

  Independent, Film, Independent Film

  "Living The High Life". Interview with Randee Dawn, www.backstage.com. September 30, 2003.

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• The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

  David Byrne

  Band, Groove

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• Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

  Nicolas Cage

  Guy, Understanding, Rhythm

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• I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene.

  Nicolas Cage

  Years, Television, Waking

  "Interview with Nicolas Cage from 'G-Force'". Interview with Julie Bonner, www.alloy.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Trying, Way

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• Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.

  David Cameron

  Simple, People, Firefighter

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• Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

  John le Carre

  Writing, Work Out, Imagination

  "John le Carré at the NFT". Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Hair, Way, Brides

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• You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

  Nick Cave

  Writing

  "Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

  Jackie Chan

  Fighting, West, Cameras

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• Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

  Diablo Cody

  Reality, Delight, Tvs

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• It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

  Diablo Cody

  Matured

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• When I was a 21-year-old intern at CBS, I was told I had crossed eyes and shouldn't try to be on air. That's when I decided I was going to be behind the scenes.

  Andy Cohen

  Eye, Air, Years

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• I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

  Andy Cohen

  Anchorman, College, Years

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• I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

  Lena Dunham

  Awkward, Seems

  "Lena Dunham's 'Girls': Still Sex, Still The City, Different Show". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sullivan, www.npr.org. April 8, 2012.

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• I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

  Lena Dunham

  Different, Filmmaker, Feels

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• I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Trying, Way, Realistic

  "Old News: Bringing it On Since 1898". Interview with Brendan Lemon, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2000.

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• I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, People, Design

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