Screens Quotes - Page 5

• I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

  Billy Crudup

  Character, Energy, Want

  "Billy Crudup Bares All". Parade Interview, parade.com. March 3, 2009.

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• It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

  Devon Aoki

  Difficult, Critics

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

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• I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

  Hayden Christensen

  Class, Wish, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

  Toni Collette

  Challenges, Actors, Becoming

  "Touchy, feely, Toni" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.

  Jack Dorsey

  Cities, Giving, Flow

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• What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.

  Stanley Donen

  Unseen, Looks, Want

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• To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

  Beverly D'Angelo

  Stars, Want, Ends

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

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• Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Christian, Dream, Thinking

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2012

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• I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Writing, Way, Idiot

  "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2000.

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• You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

  Danai Gurira

  Space, Add, Looks

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• 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 only pay to take my son to the movies, because most of the time I only watch European movies, independent movies, or screen them privately. But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Fun, Independent, Son

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

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• Sure, the killer was my son, but I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun. It's the killer on this TV screen, you can't blame me, it's the images he sees.

  Jack Johnson

  Art, Son, Gun

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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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• 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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• Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have great chemistry outside of work. It's just something that sparks on screen or doesn't.

  Tricia Helfer

  Mean, Thinking, Sparks

  "Tricia Helfer Interview DARK BLUE Season Two". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

  Tea Obreht

  Mother, Black And White, Eight

  "Téa Obreht" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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