Lines Quotes

• If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • Moments
  • Turns
  • Scripts

• One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.

  

  Constance Spry
  • Moving
  • Spirit
  • Flower

• Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice.

  

  Rhys Ifans
  • People
  • Late
  • Treats

• The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Tree
  • Lines
  • Bottom

• That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.

  

  Nick Willis
  • Moments
  • Endurance
  • Savoring

• If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.

  

  Celeste Ng
  • Struggle
  • Cameras
  • Chosen

• Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

  

  Kay WalkingStick
  • Abstract
  • Notion
  • Symbols

• I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Writing
  • Lines
  • Closing

• Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Lines

• My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying my lines. From then on, that was it. I knew there was something special about the theater for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

  

  Raul Julia
  • Reality
  • Parent
  • Special

• By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Imagination
  • Canvas
  • Composition

• God really exists, I tell you like this: It resides inside. And anybody tell you different, Just selling you religion, Tryin' to keep your ass in line.

  

  Killer Mike
  • Different
  • Hip Hop
  • Selling

• It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

  

  Michael McKean
  • Stupid
  • Lines
  • Fine

• The least amount of info actors get, the better. Actors are always like, 'What is my motivation for this?' You didn't write it. Just say the lines.

  

  Steve Howey
  • Actor
  • motivation
  • Lines

• I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Reader
  • Complicated
  • Sentences

• I always know my lines.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Knows
  • Lines

• If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Trying
  • Scene
  • Ruins

• "Which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot." "No," Delia said, over her shoulder. "Actually, you're not. Just excuse yourself as politely as possible, and get out of arm's reach." Kristy looked at me, shaking her head. "Stomp them." she said, under her breath. "Really."

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Behavior
  • Rights
  • Feet

• I'm not single, I'm busy. That's my line.

  

  Renee Zellweger
  • Lines
  • Busy

• [Kyle Chandler] taught me how to listen very well and reacting. There's a lot of improv. And to be able to do that on the spot you really have to be in tune with what the other person is saying instead of just waiting for your cue line or waiting for a word for you to deliver your next line.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Waiting
  • Able
  • Lines

• I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Night
  • Waiting
  • Sorry

• Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Speak
  • Poet
  • Given

• Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Jobs
  • Creating
  • Needed

• By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

  

  Isabelle Huppert
  • Acting
  • Lines
  • Improvisation

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