Best 474 quotes in «scene quotes» category

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

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

As an actor, you always find your way. You have whatever preparation techniques you use, and you just go with the scene when you're on set. You can only plan so much when you're working, because things have to come naturally in the scene.

As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.

A scene can be created when people are coming together. Either to shop or to hang out.

A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

As far as music, that's always going to be my first love and I've always loved doing music and I always will, but right now it's more into film, television and behind the scenes with writing and producing. I'm still going to keep releasing music for my fans.

As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.

As I've gotten older, the parts have diminished. I liked it when I was younger, I could always play the lead in the movie and I could do all the romantic scenes with the women, and it was fun and I liked to play that. Now, I'm older and I'm reduced to playing the backstage doorman or the uncle or something. I don't really love that so occasionally, when a part comes up, I'll play it.

As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

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

At the assassination of Caesar when Cassius says, "How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown!" And you kind of went, "Never was there a truer word spoken.

At the still point, there the dance is.

Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii

As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?

[ Being naked on scene ] was like walking a tightrope without a net - with a giant fan blowing at you.

Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget.

Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]

Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

Bryan Cranston is generous, he's funny. When we did a wedding scene [in The Infiltrator ], at the end of the movie with a big set piece, he put the veil off the bride, he put it on, he pretended like we were getting married, he's just a goof.

But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back into getting a cheap laugh, but I still loved it.

Carvin Jones is one of the brightest young stars on the blues scene today

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi's chest was a living thing.

Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody.

During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.

Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you only have this one shot.

Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

Denzel Washington was so great at The Great Debaters, so focused and talented. That was just an honor to be cast in that, for the most part. I was fat, and I guess the casting director sold him on me. He actually said to me during the scene, "You know, I've always found that less is more," which is an expression that you've heard a million times, but it was a nice way of telling me I was overdoing it.

Deleted scenes are like in a middle gray zone. It's like, well, they're deleted because they're not good or you lost the battle and you couldn't put them in the movie.

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

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

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Every sex scene is always, without a doubt, terribly funny.

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

Everything Will Ferrell says during scenes is so funny and so natural. I was amazed at his genius.

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

For me, I wish I loved every script that I read. Sometimes I'm more picky and choosy than I really should be because you would get more jobs as an actor! But you don't know what it is. Sometimes you read something and it could be a big part or a small part. It could be one scene and I'll read it and say: "Wow, I really like that and I really want to do that.".

For me, the thing that I love about the show is the psychological thriller aspect of it. It's frightening and it's scary, and there are all these things that happen. You have these really dramatic scenes, and then you get in a scene with him and I can't tell you how many times I would start cracking up.

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

For me, in movies, it's always a mixed bag. I've never made a movie where I thought, "You were really good in that movie; you were good all the time." No. It's always, "You didn't get it, you didn't do it in that scene, but the other scene is pretty good." So I just hope that in balance there's more good scenes than not.