Screen Quotes - page 4

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage. (Bela Lugosi)
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen. View quote
Bela Lugosi
Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays. View quote
Bill Joy
The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen. View quote
Bill Joy
We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen. View quote
David Levithan
Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen. View quote
David Nicholls
She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or map, it made my stomach clench. And my teeth. And my fists. View quote
James Patterson
Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built. View quote
Gerard Butler
I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen. View quote
John Cusack
I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen. View quote
Joshua Ferris
When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A night sky with one small star blinking at the top, a universe ready to be written on? Endless possibilities. Love's endless twists and turns - and all love's impossibilities. (Elizabeth Chandler)
I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome. View quote
Ian Somerhalder
If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face. View quote
Kate McKinnon
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes. View quote
Alan Rickman
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in. View quote
Laini Taylor
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person. View quote
Edith Head
That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there. View quote
Atom Egoyan
It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen. View quote
Atom Egoyan
Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
I remember seeing 'Aladdin' when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum, 'Whatever this Genie guy does, I want to do.' Mum said I couldn't be a genie, but that Robin Williams, who did the voice-over in the film, was an actor. So I said, 'OK, then, I want to be an actor.' View quote
Darren Criss
Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex. (Myrna Loy)
If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you. View quote
Joseph Morgan
About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen. View quote
Marie Windsor
My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits. View quote
Peter O'Toole
We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile. View quote
Paul Reiser