Scene Quotes

• You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Music
  • War
  • Song

• 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

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

  

  Ang Lee
  • Time
  • Way
  • Rehearsing

• I don't know Gov. Palin. I've certainly seen her, since she came on the scene, you know, running with John McCain.

  

  Linda McMahon
  • She
  • Running
  • John McCain

• As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.

  

  Meriwether Lewis
  • Scene
  • Enchantment
  • Visionaries

• John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Guy
  • Police
  • Crime

• I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with Seinfeld all the time. He did it with Colombo, too, set the scene.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Time
  • Why
  • Remember

• Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Up
  • American
  • Comedy

• Trust is always a factor. You've just got to look at the big picture, and you've got to look at the small picture - the small picture in the sense that you've got to make every scene work and you've got to deal with what people are presenting you with, too.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Bigs
  • Deals

• Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Film
  • Changed
  • Realistic

• Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lasts
  • Articles
  • Vow

• 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

• Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?'

  

  Anna Friel
  • Audience
  • Hell
  • Fake

• As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.

  

  Vincent Piazza
  • Opportunity
  • Actors
  • Given

• When you first break into the music scene, everyone is so naive. I was only nineteen when i started happening whith 'Charly' and I was so into the rave scene - apart from hip hop, I was blind to everything else.

  

  Liam Howlett The Prodigy
  • First
  • Blind
  • Hip Hop

• It brings one very large tank of foam to the scene. Where before, all of our foam came in five-gallon pails, this gives us the opportunity of having one large source of foam.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Opportunity
  • Tank
  • Foam

• I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Death

• It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt like I could just drop the ball when the coverage was on him or anything else.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Fence
  • Confrontation
  • Relentless

• There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Career

• Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price-individua lly and collectively-fo r their nation's continued efforts to dominate the global scene.

  

  Chalmers Johnson
  • May
  • Effort
  • Pay

• Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Reason
  • Sometimes
  • Actors

• If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Community
  • Comic
  • Newcomers

• 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

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