Screen Quotes
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Being in front of the camera was like coming home. The first time I saw myself on the big screen, it was in a trailer for 'The New Guy', and I just started screaming.
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That night, he kept activating the readout from his chip on the mobile’s login screen: Enfranchised.
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I'm very shy about seeing my own face on the screen.
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I've made a few hits where I'll look up at the screen and be like, 'Oh my God.' Like it wasn't even me, like I just watched another guy kill this guy, and I don't even think that was me that made that hit.
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Nobody wants to see a woman on screen who is a wreck. That is pure, unadulterated, systemic misogyny.
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It is really awkward to see myself on screen.
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I know I've got the ability to bring a sense of menace to the screen. I have that specific competence, and it's generally kept me working.
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I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.
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I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?
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Only the picture matters. It's what goes on the screen that counts.
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The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.
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The simple c is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.
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I couldn't stand seeing myself on the screen.
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I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it’s a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting process and my own way of navigating through something. But ultimately the desire is to be honest, and for that truth to bleed through into your work and onto the screen.
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You try and imagine what it must have been like to first see something moving on a screen. It must have blown your mind, because up to then life went by and there was no way to capture it. You could only get one instant and you didn't get the movement. So it's like having a bit of control over time really, because it's happening in real time or what seems to be real time, and then you can play it backwards and you can watch things again and again.
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There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.
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My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen.
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Sex is never messy on screen.
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You need to be a good screen partner. It's very meaningful to me to be a part of great acting performances.
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Sometimes I don't want to go out and socialize; I just want to watch my favorite shows and comedians. But then I have to remember that it is important to participate in life if you want to portray real life on screen.
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I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.
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It's definitely hard for me watching myself on screen, it's very uncomfortable, but it's just like anything - the more you do it, the more you get used to it. When I first got out I was like, I can't look at all, it makes me sick to my stomach.
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It was kind of a seeing-eye goal. We had a good screen in front of him and I don't think he saw it.
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I like being New Orleans. Different aspects. You have the lake house. You have a huge, almost plantation-style house, so I like the different elements of the city and what the city has to offer and putting it on the screen.
