Screens Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.

  Amanda Schull

  Mistake, Philosophy, Medicine

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• Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

  Gene Kelly

  Two, Dancing, Three

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• People should realize that I shot a Coke commercial back in 1986. So, you know, I've been around a long time. I carry my Screen Actors Guild Card.

  Kato Kaelin

  Long, People, Cards

  Personal Quote, 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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• I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Art, Symphony, Collaboration

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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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• I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

  Hugh Grant

  Natural, Given, Menace

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• I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Lovely, Jennifer

  "Sarah Jessica Parker Interview - Sex and the City". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 23, 2008.

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• I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

  Alexander Payne

  Actors, Persons

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• Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?" Wax: "My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study" Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Thinking, People, Poison

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• To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.

  Adrienne Rich

  Dream, Memories, Writing

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Once apon a time, Ian's dark, dreamy eyes had made her melt inside. The angle of his head, the wrinkle in the left corner of his lip—they'd obsessed her. And he'd been obsessed right back. Now all Amy wanted to do was throw her shoe at the screen.

  Peter Lerangis

  Eye, Dark, Wrinkles

  Peter Lerangis (2012). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 3: The Dead of Night”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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• It rang and it rand and it rang. I looked at the screen one last time, then at Stuart, and then I reached my arm back and threw the phone as hard as I could (sadly, not that far), and it vanished into the snow. The eight-year-olds, who were truly fascinated with our every move at this point, chased after it. 'Lost it,' I said. 'Whoops.

  Maureen Johnson

  Moving, Eight, Phones

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• Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.

  Leonard Maltin

  Eye, Hitting, Documentaries

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• Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would never allow to come in through the door.

  Albert Borgmann

  Wall, Doors, Television

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• Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

  Irving Thalberg

  Giving, Needs, Credit

  "The Moguls". Book by Norman J. Zierold, 1969.

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• I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.

  Kevin Rose

  Care, I Don't Care, Don't Care

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• I wanted to be a success on the stage, the screen, or the radio. So I saved my money and when I had bus fare and $16.82 over, I told my mother, Clara, I was going to leave home. She was heartbroken, but she believed in me.

  Carole Landis

  Heartbroken, Mother, Home

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• That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

  Rory Bremner

  Media, Ideas, Directors

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• If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers don’t have it on their radar screens—then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake.

  Christine Lagarde

  Running, Nice, Issues

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• Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

  Pico Iyer

  Angel, Thinking, Cities

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.84, Vintage

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• It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.

  Bernhard Langer

  Golf, Captains, Cups

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