Scene Quotes · Page 18

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

— John Dryden

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

— Samantha Mumba

I've always been ahead of the curve when it came to trying new stuff in the underground scene.

— Kid Cudi

We're very much homebodies. Especially in the whole whack scene of L.A.

— Carey Hart

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play;

— Charlotte Bronte

The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

— Bernard Lonergan

I started out in the ballroom scene when I was fourteen years old.

— Mj Rodriguez

As an actor, I wouldn't reject a scene because I felt awkward or disturbed.

— Tripti Dimri

I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell…

— Nikki Reed

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air…

— Aimee Mann

I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we…

— Robert Downey, Jr

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

— Andy Cohen

I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for…

— E. J. Hughes

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage…

— Anonymous

If you have the opportunity to watch Nathan Fillion or Jim Carrey do a scene, it's like getting a Ph.D. in acting.

— Molly Quinn

It was lucky that Ralph [Fiennes] is someone who understands both film and theater and we were able to understand that scene…

— Felicity Jones

The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and…

— Brian Henson

An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that…

— Bayard Taylor

If it's a very emotional scene, you're kind of relieved when you've done it, kind of spent. And there are times when…

— Robert De Niro

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene…

— Adela Rogers St. Johns

Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing…

— Meredith Willson

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely…

— Summer Glau

The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that…

— Meryl Streep

The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that…

— Anthony Bourdain

I do prefer doing more takes. There's something very organic that comes from the first take, but certain things come out. More…

— Martin Scorsese

Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by…

— Bill McKibben

There's a scene [in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael] in my bedroom where I start eating Almond Roca. I was…

— Winona Ryder

Josh [Gad] is such an amazing improviser and is so good when the material is flowing from him that sometimes, if a…

— Josh Gad

I did some writing for that movie. The remake of Planet of the Apes. I didn't write the script. But I wrote…

— Brian Regan

I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from…

— Jodi Picoult

What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music…

— Alice McDermott

...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't…

— Katherine Paterson

As a filmmaker, every tool you get to tell the scene better is important.

— Mani Ratnam

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

— David Mamet

We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.

— Samuel Goldwyn

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

— Robin Tunney

As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.

— Meriwether Lewis

I liked a lot of the scenes I did with Ryan Phillippe.

— Kieran Culkin

Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.

— Philip K. Dick

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life

— James Joyce