Screens Quotes - Page 31

• You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?

  Tom Robbins

  God, Prayer, Humorous

  Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.48, Random House

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• A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Good Man, Action

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.95, Psychology Press

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• (Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

  John Cassavetes

  Acting, Performing, Extensions

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• The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows - which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach - but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen.

  Kim Cattrall

  Europe, Tv Shows, America

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• My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Beautiful, Attention, Appearance

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• I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

  Anne Rice

  Years, Work Out, Hours

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• I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

  Tanith Lee

  Would Be, Film, Intrigued

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• The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

  Tom Hanks

  Mean, Years, Desire

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts' Larry Crowne: A family affair". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. June 29, 2011.

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• It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.

  David Edelstein

  Glasses, Media, Brain

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• The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Long, People, Asking

  "Nancy Gibbs, Time Executive Editor: iPad May Rejuvenate Long-Form Magazine Journalism" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2010.

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• I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.

  Andy Garcia

  Effort, Care, Want

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• My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

  James Broughton

  White, Pages, Film

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• I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

  Gary Sinise

  Games, Levels, Actors

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• When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

  Dave Eggers

  Want, Computer, Online

  "Dave Eggers on his favorite things about newspapers" by Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 05, 2010.

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• I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

  Tim Roth

  People, Trying, Scripts

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• Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Witty, Book, Writing

  "Big ideas". Interview with Alice Wignall, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2004.

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• The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Differences, Theatre, Acting

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

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• I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Impact, Feelings, Would Be

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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• Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

  Hugh Mackay

  Children, Worrying Too Much, Trying

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• I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

  Louis Begley

  Writing, Confession, Interest

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• The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.

  Colin Baker

  Writing, Stuff, Bigs

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• People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.

  Edward Burns

  Art, Home, Thinking

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• Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Sweaters, Machines, Done

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

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• I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more...

  Paul Bettany

  Thinking, Temptation, Trying

  "Paul Bettany: Playing Darwin with Creation". Interview with Adam Rutherford, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2009.

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• Acting on a blue screen is awful.

  Steve Burns

  Blue, Acting, Awful

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