Tone Quotes · Page 12

I think every character that I play has a certain sort of tone or an energy level to them.

— Bill Skarsgard

“Well, there would be no sound if we shout on the background.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

— Todd Phillips

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

— John Ralston Saul

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!

— Harry Connick, Jr

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

— Margaret Fuller

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

— Danny Elfman

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature…

— E. B. White

I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit…

— Anna Journey

I know because the movie's made a lot of money, everyone's relaxed a bit so there wasn't that pressure to set the…

— Jamie Dornan

I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and…

— Grace Jones

“Your volume speaks volumes. Be aware of your dynamics, your tones as well as the loudness and softness of your voice on…

— Loren Weisman

As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness…

— Richard Whately

The leadoff-hitter thing, I think, it's always nice to have an established leadoff hitter and to have someone who can really get…

— Theo Epstein

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us.…

— George Henry Lewes

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to…

— Rihanna

Well, outside of the tone, the big thing that I gained from working on horror film was how to shoot really quickly…

— Deon Taylor

I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I…

— Amy Lowell

Tone is an interesting question because part of the inspiration of looking to song is that Geisel himself - when you think…

— Christopher Meledandri

I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're…

— Paula Fox

To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from…

— Ernst Haas

I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing,…

— Amy Seimetz

You get to play with shadow, mood, and tone. And this [Batman All-Stars] is such a moody story.

— Declan Shalvey

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

— Frederick Tennyson

I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits - same color trousers, same color shirt.

— Theophilus London

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

— Aldous Huxley

I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.

— Carl Schmitt

'The Driver' kind of set the tone for what I wanted to say, and lyrically, it especially did.

— Charles Kelley

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun…

— Amy Poehler

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

— Samuel Beckett

I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.

— Kehinde Wiley

I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank

— Abbi Glines

“you're just…You're everything" His words are perfect, but the tone in his voice is not right. Wistful. Apologetic.”

— Jessica Park

I mean, Dad's - you know, Dad's friendliest tone was a scream.

— Terry Gross

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

— Alexander Payne

I think with romantic comedies it's a lot about tone, because different romantic comedies have different tones.

— Jennifer Lopez

Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

— Chris Bosh