Screens Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

  Tom Petty

  Art, Media, Way

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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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• Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Children, Home, Internet Access

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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 love writing for the screen.

  Beth Henley

  Writing

  "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

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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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• In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.

  Eugene Jarvis

  Fun, Games, Play

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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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• 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 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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• You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an unfavorable image of a kike because the Jews are ever watchful for that. They never allowed it to be shown on the screen!

  Marlon Brando

  Race, Saws, Jew

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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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• The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

  Bela Lugosi

  Thinking, Way

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• I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

  Ann Macbeth

  Thinking, Long, Quality

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• Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.

  Craig McCracken

  Approved

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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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• I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.

  Sonequa Martin

  Fighting, College, Training

  "Sonequa Martin-Green (Sasha)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.

  Edward Frenkel

  Thinking, Ideas, Office

  Edward Frenkel (2013). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.145, Basic Books

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• It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

  Lisa See

  Feet, Towns, Would Be

  "Lisa See: Secret Women's Writing". "The Book Show" with Lyn Gallacher, www.abc.net.au. December 28, 2006.

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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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• I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.

  Ty Olsson

  Fortune, Not Sure, Died

  "Q&A – Ty Olsson (Griggs)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2012.

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• In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.

  Andrew Lau

  Stars, Uncles, School

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2007.

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