Cameras Quotes - Page 24

• At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Jobs, Tv Shows, Best Job

  "Cooking up a mystery: an interview with Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Jessica Bennett, www.raintaxi.com.

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• I like to know where the camera is.

  Jeff Bridges

  Knows

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• Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

  David Brinkley

  Anchors, Matter, Sitting

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• You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.

  Albert Brooks

  Pressure, Rolling, Schedules

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• If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

  Kobe Bryant

  Athlete, Phones, World

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• At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Jobs, Years, Careers

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• I don't know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.

  Sandra Bullock

  Stress, Adventure, Want

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. April 17, 2002.

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• As long as I have enough money for makeup artists, everything is okay. I feel young and very free. But one day, my face will be too old for the camera.

  Sandra Bullock

  Artist, Makeup, Long

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• Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up is extreme. There's a lot of other extreme situations, you know, just getting out of bed sometimes is extreme - but I do it. Just got to do it, just got to get up. Put your sweatpants on, brush off the dog hair and just get out of the house!

  Sandra Bullock

  Dog, Nice, Hair

  "Sandra Bullock: America's sweetheart at 50" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2014.

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• You know, everyone says, 'Modeling and acting are so similar'... they say, 'It's so natural for models to become actresses because they use the camera.' I don't think of it in that way.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Thinking, Acting, Actresses

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• I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Way, More Time

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• I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination?

  Nicolas Cage

  Jeans, Voice, Imagination

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• So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.

  Jane Campion

  Actors, Persona, Fronts

  "A Few Questions for Jane Campion". Interview with Brooks Barnes, carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com. December 18, 2009.

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• There's nothing like the energy in a small comedy club room or a small theater when it's going really well. I can see everybody's face practically in the whole room. There's no cameras in the way, and it's just me.

  Drew Carey

  Energy, Clubs, Way

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• Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

  Nick Cave

  People, Photograph, Particular

  "Nick Cave is not in the business of telling people what to do". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, music.avclub.com. April 8, 2013.

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• It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

  Jackie Chan

  Fighting, West, Different

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• I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.

  George Clooney

  Hands, People, Crowds

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• It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.

  Diablo Cody

  Juice, Almonds, Matter

  "Diablo Cody Thinks Lena Dunham Is ‘Our New Woody Allen’" by Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2013.

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• I don't like people who are hypocritical, who pretend to be nice, particularly in show business when they're nice on camera, and then off camera they're absolutely appalling to the makeup people, or the waitress in a restaurant, you know? I don't like - I can't bear those kind of people. So I like people who are, you know, up front in your face.

  Simon Cowell

  Nice, Makeup, People

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 17, 2006.

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• I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

  Penelope Cruz

  Photography, Opportunity, Trying

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• Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again?

  Penelope Cruz

  Morning, Giving, Feelings

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• The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.

  John Cusack

  People, Would Be, Towers

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• With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

  John Cusack

  War, Knowing, Opposites

  "John Cusack: 'I like to take risks'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2009.

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• Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.

  Louis C. K.

  Two, Car, Stuff

  "Louis C.K.: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2011.

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• Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

  Janice Dickinson

  Liars, Hey, Fool

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