Scene Quotes

• Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.

  

  James Brown
  • Up
  • Sex
  • Expression

• The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Time
  • Character
  • Shows

• After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Song
  • Comedy
  • Revolution

• What I do is whatever it takes, it takes. Sometimes you see a scene right away and a take looks great so you might print that and you might print a couple more and take elements of all three. It just depends. You're looking for the highlights. You're looking for the best elements of the scene, but preferably you'd like to have one good take that would go all the way through.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Good
  • Great
  • Couple

• The best scene is the last great scene I did.

  

  Rene Auberjonois
  • Great
  • Best
  • Scene

• Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Scene
  • Star Wars
  • Jaws

• I have been working out for 30 years, staying in shape in the dream that someday I would get to play a sex scene. Finally I get one, and they cut it.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Dream
  • Film
  • Cutting

• Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

  

  William Shatner
  • Film
  • Actors
  • Replaced

• There's a running joke among fans that Jack never goes to the bathroom. We had a scene where I was running towards a sign pointing ?BATHROOM' to the left and ?OFFICES' to the right. I did a double-take and ran towards the bathroom! We sent it in to the network, as a joke reel. But, quite frankly, nobody wants to see Jack Bauer go to the bathroom.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Running
  • Joke
  • Bathroom

• The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Knowledge
  • Story
  • Thing

• The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Time
  • Way
  • Rehearsing

• If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Work
  • Character
  • Audition

• If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.

  

  William Goldman
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Screenwriting

• I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are.

  

  Arthur Fogel
  • Artist
  • Used
  • Behinds

• The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Different
  • Today
  • Growing

• The Taboo scene was a kind of deconstructed version of the New Romantics. The Taboo crowd was using a lot of the visual ideas that had already been used. I remember the first time I spotted Leigh Bowery and Trojan parading around in clubs: They were in their "Pakis from Outer Space" look, and the makeup was quite similar to one of my old looks, because I was quite fond of wearing blue, green, or yellow foundation, and so I was pretty dismissive of them at first.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Remember
  • Kind
  • Blue

• It's very easy to co-opt subcultures, and I think that scene was very easily coopted, not just on a feminist level but on a capitalist level in general. It's hard to see now because, to me, now there are so many competing pluralistic subcultures.

  

  Andi Zeisler
  • Feminist
  • Scene
  • Subcultures

• The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Scene

• But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Enough

• All films created by Walt Disney at the time of his major outpouring of work were carefully crafted to fit scenes, characters, moods and situations. If these elements changed in any way, songs - no matter how good they were - were discarded. Others were written for the new scenes. Many times, character songs were dropped because characters were dropped...sequences were dropped etc.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Character
  • Song
  • Film

• Another mistake a director can make is not to be prepared, so you get there on the day to shoot the scene, and they don't know how it should be blocked, and they're not clear on how they want to do a scene.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Mistake
  • Directors
  • Clear

• A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Play
  • Novel
  • Chapter

• What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Racism
  • Anarchy
  • Spunk

• There's often rarely any dialogue in a sex scene. With your fellow actor, it's good to talk about what the unspoken dialogue is, that's happening in the scene. You've got to play something rather than feel self-conscious or exposed.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • Actors
  • Conscious
  • Dialogue

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