Scene Quotes - Page 22

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.

I'm a good Indian girl, I still don't do sex scenes in my movies because my mum would kill me!

At the assassination of Caesar when Cassius says, "How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown!" And you kind of went, "Never was there a truer word spoken."

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

I hated being photographed and never wanted to go on red carpets, even though they always asked me to. My place was behind the scenes. I wasn't a diva. I preferred to look at life from the outside.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

You can lose your ability to play romantic scenes... you have to ensure that your mind is in the right place.

Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something. Like, say, you're walking down a hall and you just don't have enough dialogue, and you throw in something. But you don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed.

Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.

The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough.

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

Im not an Internet person that reads behind-the-scenes stuff. I see a trailer, and if it looks good, then I go. Thats that.

Everything Will Ferrell says during scenes is so funny and so natural. I was amazed at his genius.

Rob Lowe is a sportsman and a ladykiller and it's impossible to be in a scene with him and not immediately begin to play tennis.

As long as everyone is playing for the scene or the movie, rather than themselves, then you're going to have something really good.

If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.

When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.