Scene Quotes

When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time.

I was like, I can't believe I get to be in a scene with Meryl Streep [in Florence Foster Jenkins]! And then I was like, but why do I have to play Chopin? It's already going to be intimidating.

I always choose music based on whatever the scene calls for, or whatever my mood is supposed to be.

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

I think of a movie as a human body. You can feel the pump of the heart and the blood going through the veins when you watch that scene.

These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it needs to make sense.

I didn't want to overstate anything, but at the same time, the scene expands on some of the themes in the film [ "Aquarius"].

It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.

I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.

I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that information is a website away.

World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

Look, this CPAC convention is increasingly the Star Wars bar scene of the conservative movement. All that’s missing from that convention is a couple of Wookies.

If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

I'd have conversations with the camera crew about what was going on in the scene, so that they were prepared to shoot it. I love the fact that when you work, you create this tribe.

The Vatican has always had a core of diplomats for centuries. It has ambassadors in 180 countries and always played a kind of behind-the-scene role in many world issues.

Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.

I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.

I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.

And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.

Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget.

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

Maybe it's good that we are so slow with everything. We were saved from the damages that took place in the last 10 or 15 years in the scene.

I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

I think I am example for our scene, so I have to be an example for the rest.

In movies, you just see somebody close their eyes, and you go on to the next scene.

As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.

I was in the car driving back, after having done a scene where I kill somebody, and I just said to the driver, "I can't talk right now. I'm too emotional." The whole car ride back, I was just crying.

I would comment on the scene, but I've never kissed a woman so I don't really have anything to add.

I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.

Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.

That sounds stupid, but in most films that take six months, you're actually spending four weeks to do a fight scene.

I like being behind the scene.

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

I don't feel like you can fully find the true character until you're in his wardrobe, on set, and really getting into the scene. And that's when you really find out who your character is.

I'm not an ensemble actor, because it's always a lot of ego when you're all together in the scene. It's kind of intellectual fighting for something.

I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.

Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

When your blood is found at the murder scene, that's the end of the ball game, there's nothing more to say.

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.

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.

For me, that was a hard scene [in "Fences"] to do twenty-something times, which (laughing), I counted. That was difficult, but once I did it, I felt like I could do anything.

Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you only have this one shot.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.