Screens Quotes - Page 23

• Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Sitting, Ongoing

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• If I could dance like the ladies can, it would have been my arse on your screens.

  Lily Allen

  Arses, Has Beens, If I Could

  "Lily Allen. Sheezus" by Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. May 8, 2014.

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• Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.

  Clark Gable

  Men, Ideas, Kind

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• There are some movies that deserve criticism. They want people to know that it's a great dramatic accomplishment and has some great performances in it. But, c'mon. Yes, you will have some fun if you go see 'Snakes on a Plane.' Snakes are biting people - and they're biting them right on screen. There's nothing to review. It's not 'Snakes on the Waterfront.' You don't have snakes going, 'I coulda been a constrictor.' No. Hell no. It's 'Snakes on a Plane.'

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Fun, Snakes, People

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• What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Character, Ideas, Singing

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• Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

  Bill Gates

  Reading, People, Good Things

  "Q&A with Bill Gates: Microsoft's pushing its frontiers". Interview with Byron Acohido, abcnews.go.com.

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• On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

  Bill Gates

  Impact, Three, Next

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• The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

  Bill Gates

  Reading, Tablets, Mainstream

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• I struggle to watch myself in any scene, to be honest. What's done is done. I wish I was able to watch myself, as it would really help me develop as an actor. But I'm not brave enough. It's a difficult thing to do - looking at yourself as this utterly different person on a screen.

  Eva Green

  Struggle, Brave, Wish

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• I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

  Michael Caine

  Play, People, Interesting

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• Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor holding a gun. It's almost as if guns are harmless props used to bring out the cheekbones and jawline of the screen star.

  Henry Rollins

  Stars, Gun, Trying

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• I've never vied for power in the family before. Pointing a box at the garage door and saying "Open!" was never a big deal, but holding that television tuner and realizing I alone control what is flashed on the screen brings out the Iacocca in me.

  Erma Bombeck

  Doors, Television, Realizing

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• If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.

  Bill Gates

  Airplane, Sunset, Presidential

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• My photographs are not really about photography. They are about editing. I use photography but they are all taken from the TV screen. Anybody can do that, but it's the order I put the pictures in to try to create a new kind of movie, something that you can put on your wall.

  John Waters

  Photography, Wall, Taken

  John Waters, Marvin Heiferman, Lisa Phillips (2004). “John Waters: change of life”, Harry N. Abrams

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• What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.

  George Burns

  Once Upon A Time, Today, Actresses

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• Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.

  Bill Maher

  Cutting, Opportunity, Style

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• Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.

  Billy Wilder

  Mean, Fabulous, Towns

  Quoted in Earl Wilson, The Show Business Nobody Knows (1971)

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• The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.

  Salvador Dali

  Photography, Perspective, Different

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• I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.

  Harrison Ford

  Emotional, Thinking, Behaviour

  "Star Wars: 'No nostalgia' for Harrison Ford". Interview with Lizo Mzimba, www.bbc.co.uk. December 6, 2015.

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• I had done lots of theater and I really wanted to do screen work. I said to my agent, "Look, I really want to do screen work and I want to concentrate on that now" and he said, "Well, it's going to be tough for you."

  Gwendoline Christie

  Looks, Done, Agents

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to cast correctly, and then I want them to live on screen. If I cast the wrong actor, I'm screwed. But, if I cast the right actor, it really works out. The casting process is so important.

  Andre Øvredal

  Work Out, Important, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I now know all shades of the color green, having spent 90 days staring at that green screen. I'll never forget that color, as long as I live.

  Rob Letterman

  Color, Long, Green

  Source: collider.com

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• A little bit more than 50% of what you see on screen is handcrafted and the other 50% was about emulating these textures on the computer. However, for us, when we were making it, we had to believe it was all handcrafted.

  Alex Abreu

  Believe, Texture, Littles

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight.

  Alfred Gough

  Fighting, Battle, Television

  "Al Gough and Miles Millar Exclusive Interview CHARLIE'S ANGELS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 1, 2011.

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• I love female heroes too and would love to bring many more to the big screen in the future.

  Kevin Feige

  Hero, Female, Bigs

  Source: collider.com

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