Screens Quotes - Page 35

• Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Doe, Outstanding

  "Super trouper of the silver screen" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2008.

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• I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

  Junot Diaz

  Mean, Television, World

  "Junot Díaz Aims to Fulfill His Dream of Publishing Sci-Fi Novel With Monstro". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy", www.wired.com. October 3, 2012.

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• If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for Iron Giant, and I'm not even on the screen.

  Vin Diesel

  Movie, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 2, 2005.

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• I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Violence, Rejects

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• One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

  Roger Ebert

  Actors, Defining Moments, Film

  Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.81, University of Chicago Press

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• If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

  Roger Ebert

  Two, Numbers, People

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Patriotic, Thinking, Alaska

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• God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, Evermore, Premature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.149, Harvard University Press

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• I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

  Colin Farrell

  Simple, Men, Two

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 26, 2002.

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• My favorite day at 30 Rock is Thursday, when the show airs. At lunch we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it’s great fun.

  Tina Fey

  Fun, Favorite Day, Rocks

  "Tina Fey: Funny Girl". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.rd.com.

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• One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

  Joshua Foer

  Procrastination, Productive Work, Challenges

  "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 09, 2012.

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• Google's screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple's does. But it's not a complete list, and people aren't aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.

  Al Franken

  Party, Apples, People

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• I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

  Hayden Fry

  Home, Games, Three

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• I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

  Stephen Fry

  Gay, Kissing, Thinking

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• When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Journey, Reality

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• I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

  Bill Gates

  Sorry, Years, People

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• My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Writing, Thinking

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• Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing.

  Mel Gibson

  Nice, Home, Dark

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• A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Movie, Workout

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Bedroom, Objects, Seeing

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• It’s like, if you can’t focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone, then don’t go to the movies! You’ve got some issues, so you should probably stay home and work on those issues, and not distract everyone with lights, and sounds, oh my gosh, the tapping on the screens, it makes me crazy!

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Crazy, Home, Issues

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Talks Hygiene, Beauty Routines And Her Onscreen Characters For HuffPost’s #nofilte". Interview with Kari Friedlander, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

  Hugh Grant

  Natural, Given, Menace

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• Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Writing, People

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

  Tom Hanks

  Brother, Hero, Black And White

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• Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Fun, Nice, Blue

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