Scene Quotes

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two have a thing going on, so we had a scene where they make out.

You get to keep acting on the feelings you had just moments before. You don't have to psych yourself up for the scene. You can just go off what you were already feeling.

If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

I don't take a scene or word for granted.

In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try to win.

Indian films are always very passionate and romantic, and so long as the scene is done well aesthetically, I have no qualms doing it.

Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.

There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.

Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

I really had very little to do with Pierre Trudeau. He was off the scene very soon.

It's Friday and I'm ready to swing. Pick up my girls and hit the party scene.

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

A cry-wanking scene is the struggle to live, in a single moment.

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

I'm too shy to do kissing scenes.

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

I don't give parties, and I'm not in that social scene. I couldn't care less.

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.

You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

The best city for fashion is Tokyo. You see styles there you won't see in London, Paris, Milan or New York. I also like the fashion scene in Los Angeles - it has a unique look.

I loathed William Frawley and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wouldn’t be a scene where we had to be in bed together.

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy.

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.

We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They don't want the YouTube stigma.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

They do it in Thai restaurants in London. You ask for a drink, and it comes in a glass with loads of seaweed and pebbles in it like a scene from Finding Nemo.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

Action scenes get me so excited, and my adrenaline starts pumping.

I personally think that all the scene that you see, love scene, is pretty real, almost 100 percent.

Theres a burgeoning film scene in Romania.