Scene Quotes · Page 21

I'm not the kind of person who thrives in 'the scene.'

— Blake Shelton

Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'

— Michael Shurtleff

Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.

— James Brown

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

— Walter Scott

Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die! -Posthumus Leonatus Act V, Scene V

— William Shakespeare

If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script.

— Mel Gibson

In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.

— Claire Bloom

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

— Joe Eszterhas

So cute how you called out for Damen after conjuring that chaste little love scene in your head.

— Alyson Noel

I don't feel like you can fully find the true character until you're in his wardrobe, on set, and really getting into…

— Tye Sheridan

The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than…

— Charlene Weir

My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that…

— Dwayne Hickman

Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered. And that was…

— Meg Cabot

Gareth [Edwards] was very open to just shaping the performances and the scenes to fit what was happening with the actors and…

— Alan Tudyk

If you think you are beautiful in a scene, you will come across as beautiful. I don't think looks are important; I…

— Helen McCrory

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot…

— Tommy Lee Jones

OK, I love 'The King and I.' I'm a huge Yul Brynner fan. I love the scene where they danced after the…

— Tina Majorino

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on?…

— Roger McGough

Sometimes when a scene is written or directed to be shouted or played incredibly angrily, I always think it's way more terrifying…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second…

— Josh Young

I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture…

— Kim Gordon

As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air…

— Lawrence Hargrave

Get inside her head. Get inside any character's head and ask what they want in this scene. And if you work from…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

When faced with a situation, the confidence you stand up to that situation with usually pushes the other person to back down…

— Sean Faris

It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It…

— Jim Jarmusch

I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is…

— Michael Scott

Onstage, I enjoy the thrill of live performance - there is no substitute for that rush. On camera I enjoy the crafting…

— Bryce Pinkham

I like being connected to young people, or younger people who are trying to figure out the language of film, bringing theorists…

— Matthew Porterfield

I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that…

— Charlie Munger

Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so…

— Anna Quindlen

I remember in one of my early films I had a drunk scene. It was Kiss Me Goodbye, with Sally Field, and…

— Jeff Bridges

I had one scene in 'Invisible' with 12 actors delivering dialog at the same time.

— Doug Liman

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

— Bob Newhart

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

— Umberto Eco

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

— Peter Jackson

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

— Philip Larkin

When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'

— Betty Smith