The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
There wasn't space to mood-up. I think Rose Byrne was just extraordinary. Talk about a character that could be really unsympathetic at… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Somebody comes to your house. You know they're coming, so it's not a surprise. And they give you an envelope that has… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
You know, I remember watching Morgan Freeman when he did the two Alex Cross movies, and he's so confident that he's going… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
There's a great Anton Chekhov quote. He says, "The Russian loves recalling life, but he does not love living." That scene has… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
I came in rather late in the casting process of Reaper. I believe they had all the other roles cast. They were… — Ray Wise Copy Share Image
Of course, I'm a dancer. Dancing grabbed me from the start and I have was never afraid to do it. With out… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, "Okay, you're going… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on,… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to… — Sam de Jong Copy Share Image
I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience,… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
The roughest part is showing up. Once you throw yourself into the scene, it's just great fun to let it all go… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
I think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them.… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I'm… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
I do study Marcel Proust, for multiple technical virtuosities but also his swerve, as you say, between characters and in scenes. Certain… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene:… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I'm ready for all forms of dialogue about the film The Conquest. There will be a lot of political talk, but I… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
Probably the most difficult scene to film was the one where I'm attacked. I haven't thought about it in a while because,… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
When the scene is over, a lot of people cut. The actors are acting. And they just stop acting. But I think… — Clea DuVall Copy Share Image
What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity… — Claire Vaye Watkins Copy Share Image
I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of… — Arthur Fogel Copy Share Image
It's hard to top what you see in the film, they were just such a great group of people to work with… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene. — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
