Lines Quotes

• Two lines must meet at a point. Therefore there are only two surprises here.

  

  Nathan Seiberg
  • Point
  • Lines
  • Surprises

• I have never sold my story, done Hello! magazine, any of that stuff. I'm not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about my private life.' I've never crossed that line.

  

  Paul Merton
  • Guilty
  • Magazines
  • Cash

• Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Stills

• I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

  

  Stephen Root
  • Acting
  • Lines
  • Cues

• Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Politics
  • Temptation
  • Lines

• Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Mean

• Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.

  

  Samuel Witwer
  • Kind
  • Difficult
  • Shows

• You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Sleep
  • Ready
  • Prepared

• I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Lines
  • Cosmetics
  • Homely

• I think about what's the best way to serve people. In business, if you do more for others than anybody else does, you dominate. That's the bottom line.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Way

• Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.

  

  Zoë Heller
  • Balance
  • Fine
  • Madness

• I have always been determined to never compromise my faith or my principles. I always relied on my God-given talent when I took the field. So the idea of using PED's to enhance my performance was a line I chose not to cross.

  

  King Fish
  • Ideas
  • Talent
  • Compromise

• Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Moving
  • Crystals
  • Congas

• When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.

  

  Seth Berkley
  • Innovation
  • States
  • Steps

• He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Remember
  • Air
  • Invisible

• Maybe Gary (Neville) deserves to be chased up a tunnel every now and then - there would be a queue for him, probably. But you have to draw a line eventually.

  

  Roy Keane
  • Deserve
  • Draws
  • Tunnels

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

  

  Rhys Ifans
  • People
  • Late
  • Treats

• I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Balance
  • Bits
  • Versus

• 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

• Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day is always in your possession. That's the day you remember. You get old and you think: well, at least I had that day. It happened once. You think all the variables might just line up again. But they don't. Not always. I once talked to a woman who said, "Yeah, that's the day we had an angel around.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Remember
  • Mean
  • Matter

• 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

• The old line 'You deserve someone better than me' in this case was not just an old line. She deserved someone who would love her and take care of her and he knew he never would.

  

  Norris Church Mailer
  • Care
  • Deserve
  • Cases

• 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

• It's easier for me to act in Spanish, but as soon as I get the lines in English and I know them by heart, it becomes really easy. You don't have to worry about the language anymore. It just takes more time. In Spanish, I can learn lines in 10 minutes. In English, it's going to take an hour.

  

  Ana de la Reguera
  • Language
  • Learn
  • Act

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