(445 quotes found)
“Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.”
Cedric Hardwicke
“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.”
Orson Welles
“If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.”
George Lucas
“I was also given more unusual things to do - like I become a cat in one scene! I loved that, because I have two cats at home.”
Emma Watson
“Build up your creditBuild up your self esteemBuild up your bank accountMoving up in the sceneEveryone's living the American Dream so we canBuild up an armyAnd SMASH it to pieces!”
Christine Anderson
“Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.”
John Burroughs
“He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.”
Andrew Marvell
“It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.”
Gary Sinise
“A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum.”
Kingsley Amis
