Screens Quotes - Page 21

• Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn't forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.

  Grace Jones

  Silly, Character, Play

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• We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.

  John Hench

  Cartoon, Chosen

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• On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I'm after, what I'm chasing, and what I'm trying to construct.

  David Ayer

  Trying, Different, Chasing

  Source: collider.com

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• I like taking my leads from what I see rather than trying to impose. I like that way of looking at things and seeing what's on screen and seeing how I can draw music out of it almost.

  Steven Price

  Trying, Way, Draws

  Source: collider.com

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• As an actor, I was taught, from an early age, that secrets are the most powerful thing that you can have on screen, and that what you withhold is as important as what you share.

  Rose McIver

  Powerful, Secret, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• At the end of the day it is just a movie and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

  Luke Bracey

  Fun, Should Have, The End Of The Day

  Source: collider.com

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• Not harder than it should be, no. We're about the business, we're about the work. It's all about the work, always. We have fun and laugh and there're days that are more intense than others, but we're there to make it better. He's always going to try and make it better, I'm always going to try and make it better. So you accept anything, you accept whatever it takes to get it up on the screen and make it worthy.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Fun, Laughing, Trying

  "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks THE EQUALIZER, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes from the 80s Series, and More on Set". Group interview, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

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• Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.

  Dennis Haysbert

  Imagination, World, Green

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hero, Loss, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"

  Steven Soderbergh

  Eight, Giving, Special

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I screen tested for Training Day many years ago, which was David Ayer's script with Antoine Fuqua directing.

  Joe Manganiello

  Years, Training, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• It's so off the charts and off anybody's radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who's been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.

  David Douglas

  Trying, Madagascar, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• So often you're asked to play impossibly perfect version of yourself on screen that it's nice to get to bring in those parts that you think aren't as worth looking at.

  Zoe Kazan

  Nice, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• It's tough to get any movie made, but unless it's a movie about race or culture or ethnicity, it's becoming less and less important who's playing what. You see that on the big screen and the small screen, and I think that's great. That's exciting.

  Will Packer

  Thinking, Race, Ethnicity

  Source: collider.com

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• More and more people are watching entertainment on their phones. On a plane or on a train, or whatever, you see people with their headphones and they're looking at their iPhone or their Galaxy. You're reducing a medium that's meant to be seen on your 65-inch plasma screen at home for your 4-inch monitor on the train. People are ready to do either, and the content has to work on both.

  Adrian Pasdar

  Home, Iphone, Phones

  Source: collider.com

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• For movies, you need to come up with a movie that is only possible to screen in the theater, which legitimizes the way you watch them. You buy your ticket so you need to get something in exchange for that. It should be a spectacle.

  Fedor Bondarchuk

  Watches, Needs, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.

  John Lloyd Young

  Kids, Musical, Hollywood

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

  John Lloyd Young

  I've Learned, Stage

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• Start by putting yourself in your users' shoes. Why are they coming to your site? If you look at most Web sites, you'd presume that the answer is "User is extremely bored and wishes to stare at a blank screen for several minutes while a flashing icon loads, then stare at the flashing icon for a few more minutes."

  Philip Greenspun

  Shoes, Icons, Bored

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• Personal improvement is like sitting in a movie theater, arguing with the villain projected on the screen, and feeling that at least we have tried to make things better.

  Steven Harrison

  Feelings, Sitting, Arguing

  Steven Harrison (2005). “What's Next After Now?: Post-spirituality and the Creative Life”, p.61, Sentient Publications

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• I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Bored, Want

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• You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.

  Casey Stengel

  Way, Catchers, Ifs

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• If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful.

  Woody Allen

  Fun, Play, Teeth

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• I am very aware of the fact that it's highly unlikely anyone will write an article via their mobile phone. I've done it, but it's painful. And it's not just about the small keyboard and the small screen - though that's awful. It's the emotional experience of writing an article.

  Sue Gardner

  Writing, Emotional, Phones

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