Screens Quotes - Page 13

• It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen.

  Douglas Booth

  Journey, Thinking, Settling

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater - but I wasn't sure if the opportunity would ever present itself. Not only was this acting for the screen, this was acting in 'The Hunger Games!' I knew that I had to give this audition my all.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  Believe, Mean, Opportunity

  "My Journey Through The Games" by Jacqueline Emerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.

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• It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.

  Alice Englert

  Secret, Should, Performances

  "Reel Steel: Alice Englert" by Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.

  Brad Meltzer

  Writing, Sitting, Desks

  Brad Meltzer (2013). “The Fifth Assassin: The Culper Ring Trilogy 2”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

  Leonard Cohen

  Home, Littles, Tonight

  Song: Democracy

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• I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.

  Peter Farrelly

  Looks, Knows

  "Farrelly Brothers: Hall Pass With Owen Wilson & Sudeikis". Interview with Chris Lee, www.thedailybeast.com. February 22, 2011.

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• There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.

  Rahul Gandhi

  New York, Yoga, Dancing

  "Rahul Gandhi Speech Hits Some Dud Notes" by Tom Wright, blogs.wsj.com. April 4, 2013.

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• I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about.

  Jeffrey Hunter

  July, Air, August

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• Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

  Max Irons

  Stories

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• When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.

  Maureen Johnson

  Writing, People, Way

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• I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

  Toby Jones

  Years, Bob, Flu

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you're too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that's what this is for. It's about building confidence and that's what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Girl, Doe, Body

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• My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

  Stacy Keach

  Actors, Theater, Knows

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• When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.

  Marla Maples

  New York, College, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when you'd get the BBC's preview. And I'd then be glued to the screen until Sunday night.

  Rory McIlroy

  Kids, Sunday, Night

  "McIlroy a Master in the making when he thinks outside The Box". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2009.

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• Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one where they would not only be admitted, but would govern as well. The would create its values and myths, its traditions and archetypes.

  Neal Gabler

  Country, Empires, Study

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• When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.

  Richard Louv

  Kids, Sitting, Use

  "Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 25, 2005.

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• You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Stars, Men, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Challenges, Acting, Found

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.

  Olivia Williams

  Kissing, Lucky, Three

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• But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

  Ray Walston

  Book, Thinking, Differences

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• Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

  Dick Cavett

  Mean, Judging, Tvs

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.67, Macmillan

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• The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Eye, Thinking, Ideas

  "How to Film a Graphic Novel". www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2011.

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• I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Zero, Emotional, Blood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

  Billy Eichner

  Character, Thinking, Rocks

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