100+ Scene Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Interview: Charles Esten of “Nashville” says why he’s fighting for Deacon’s sobriety". Interview with Liane Bonin Starr, uproxx.com. February 6, 2013.

topic: Song, Scene

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do

- Chris Hemsworth

topic: Drama, Diners, Scene, Milkshakes

As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying.

- Christina Hendricks

source: "Christina Hendricks In British GQ: In Lingerie, Adores Tight Clothing". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2010.

topic: Guy, Lucky, Scene, Strutting

I can't stand the club scene. It's all about impressing people.

- Christine Taylor

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Clubs, Scene

In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.

- Claire Bloom

topic: Mean, People, Scene

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

- Claire Forlani

topic: Scene, Enjoy

I'm more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Real, Perfect, Scene

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

- Clive Owen

topic: Different, Action, Scene

Whats more awkward than doing a shower scene? Rehearsing a shower scene.

- Cobie Smulders

topic: Awkward, Scene, Showers, Rehearsing

Actors love to act all those death scenes.

- Colin Baker

topic: Actors, Scene

On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.

- Colin Firth

topic: Fighting, Scene, Bridget Jones

Before you tell yourself its a different scene remember its just different from what you've seen.

- Corey Taylor

topic: Different, Remember, Scene

If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.

- Cornel Wilde

topic: Reason, Scene, Shock

You do scenes with certain people, all the time, and you know them so well. It's not that it can become predictable, but it's the same thing. So, when you have new people in the mix, it's so refreshing.

- Crystal Reed

source: "Crystal Reed Talks TEEN WOLF, The Psychological Aspect of Season 3b, the Relationship Between Allison and Isaac, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 27, 2014.

topic: People, Scene, Refreshing

The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.

- Cyrus Vance, Jr.

topic: Internet, Crime, Scene

When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.

- Dane Cook

topic: Energy, Firsts, Scene, Natural Energy

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

- Daniel Craig

topic: People, Dry, Scene, Movie Sets

Sorry I had to be so nasty to you Janina, at the end of a scene.

- Daniel Massey

topic: Sorry, Nasty, Scene

I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene . . .

- Dave Barry

topic: Sex, Vastness, Scene

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

- David LaChapelle

topic: Circles, Outsiders, Scene

It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

- David Lodge

source: David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.275, Penguin

topic: Faces, Scene, These Days

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

- David Mamet

topic: Actors, Scene, Bores

Get into the scene late; get out of the scene early.

- David Mamet

topic: Writing, Scene

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

- David McCullough

topic: Way, Scene, Dickens

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

- Debbie Allen

topic: Moving, Scene, Masters, Sweeping

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

- Debbie Allen

topic: Vision, Way, Scene

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

- Debra Winger

topic: Scene, Walks, Ready

The absolute worst thing you can do in a scene is be apathetic.

- Del Close

topic: Scene, Apathetic, Worst, Worst Things

No scene is ever about the words being spoken.

- Del Close

topic: Scene

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

- Dinah Sheridan

topic: Feelings, Film, Scene

It's taking our officers much longer to respond to an accident because they have to fight their way through all of the traffic just to get to the scene

- Don Kelly

topic: Fighting, Way, Scene

I don't like to direct the actors by telling them what to do. If anything, it's reminding them where they are in the movie, what's happening emotionally and what they want in the scene.

- Drake Doremus

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Actors, Want, Scene

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Giving, Settling, Scene, Lemons, Lemonade

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

- Elizabeth Reaser

source: "Elizabeth Reaser is Still Learning". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 07, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Scene, Wells, Well Written

My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.

- Elmore Leonard

source: "Elmore Leonard's Secret: 'Clean Living, and a Fast Outfield'". Interview with Jon Wiener, lareviewofbooks.org. August 20, 2013.

topic: Character, Auditions, Scene

If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.

- Emilie de Ravin

topic: Basketball, Emotional, Scene

Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Faith, Bridges, Scene

I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.

- Eric Van Lustbader

source: "Interview With Jason Bourne Author Eric Van Lustbader". Interview with Jeff Rivera, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2012.

topic: Book, Writing, Scene, Reviewers

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

- Evan Parker

topic: People, Scene, Genes

It calmed me down to see that most of the time no-one gets the scene on the first take.

- Evanna Lynch

topic: Firsts, Scene

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

- Faith Ford

topic: Mind Your Own Business, Comedy, Scene

The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough.

- Fay Wray

topic: Would Be, Enough, Scene

Things aren't always what they seem You're only seeing part of me There's more than you could ever know Behind the scenes.

- Francesca Battistelli

source: Song: Behind The Scenes, Album: My Paper Heart, 2008

topic: Behind The Scenes, Scene, Behinds

She was lost in her longing to understand.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Beautiful, Longing, Scene

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

topic: Years, Comedy, Scene, Stand Up Comedy

Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

- Garret Dillahunt

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fun, My Favorite, Scene, Fun Day

It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

- Gary Sinise

topic: Dance, Dream, Scene, Hopkins

You can lose your ability to play romantic scenes... you have to ensure that your mind is in the right place.

- Genie Francis

topic: Play, Mind, Scene

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

topic: Hero, Heroism, Scene, Uncivilized

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

- George Crabbe

topic: Design, Anticipation, Scene, Lively

There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

- George Eliot

topic: Ease, Scene, Born

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

- Gloria Swanson

topic: Order, Scene, Difficulty

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

- Greg Kinnear

topic: Looks, Actors, Scene

Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.

- Gus Van Sant

topic: Stories, Firsts, Scene

A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

- Guy Vanderhaeghe

topic: Men, Initiative, Scene

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

- Harold Bloom

topic: Believe, Progress, Scene

Theres a burgeoning film scene in Romania.

- Harry Lloyd

topic: Film, Scene, Romania

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.

- Helena Bonham Carter

topic: Hair, Way, Scene

This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Past, Scene, Form

Its always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

- Holliday Grainger

source: "Holliday Grainger Interview THE BORGIAS; Updates on BEL AMI and JANE EYRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 30, 2011.

topic: Beautiful, Film, Scene, Film Set

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

- Howard Hawks

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Good Movie, Three, Scene

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.

- Illeana Douglas

source: Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 22, 2003.

topic: Silly, Home, Scene

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

- Ira Levin

topic: Magazines, Gothic, Scene

Of course WE never had to do nude scenes. I'm glad, too, because I'm susceptible to pneumonia.

- Irene Dunne

topic: Pneumonia, Scene, Glad

I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

- J. M. W. Turner

topic: People, Looks, Scene

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

- J. Milton Hayes

topic: House, Scene, Spots

I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

- Jacques Audiard

source: "Vince Cable: 'What we're managing is quite a difficult situation'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2010.

topic: Violence, Film, Scene

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

- Jacques Derrida

source: Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.200, Stanford University Press

topic: Language, Scene

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

- Jake M. Johnson

source: "New Girl's Jake Johnson". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. May 8, 2012.

topic: Chicago, Comedy, Scene, Showcase

It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works of genius?

- James N. Frey

source: James N. Frey (2010). “How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling”, p.160, Macmillan

topic: Hard Work, Genius, Scene

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

- James Wolk

source: "Q&A: James Wolk on the Brilliant Bob Benson". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2013.

topic: Television, Scripts, Scene

When I do scenes with Alec Baldwin, he just stares at my boobs. That's how good of an actor he is, he finds a way.

- Jane Krakowski

topic: Actors, Way, Scene

The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

topic: Events, Action, Scene

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

- Jason Statham

topic: Today, Action, Scene, Action Movie

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

- Jean Rostand

topic: Pebbles, Mouths, Scene, Stuttering

The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world.

- Jean Wilson

topic: Style, World, Scene

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

- Jean-Jacques Annaud

topic: War, Scene, Difficult

How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.

- Jean-Paul Marat

topic: Liberty, Revolution, Scene, French Revolution

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

- Jeff Goldblum

topic: Jobs, Play, Scene

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

- Jennifer Garner

topic: Giving, Comedy, Scene

I have been accused of making people laugh, maybe when it's not appropriate, during scenes.

- Jeremy Sumpter

topic: People, Laughing, Scene, Making People Laugh

I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

- Jerry Orbach

topic: House, Scene, Bigs

The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.

- Jerry Saltz

topic: New York, Conflict, Scene

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

- Jesse Spencer

topic: Cities, Chicago, Scene, Melbourne

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that

- Jessica Hagedorn

topic: Want, Punk, Scene

It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it.

- Jessica Lange

topic: Simple, Scene, Ends

I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.

- Jessica Pare

source: "Q&A with Jessica Paré/Megan/ugh this bitch and her teeth". Interview with AMCtv.com, ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com. October 18th, 2010.

topic: Actors, Scene, Decent

Most of my friends are from the music scene.

- Jim Sturgess

topic: Scene

I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

- Joan Chen

topic: Scene, Intimate, Difficult

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

- Joe Eszterhas

source: "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.

topic: Smoking, Crowds, Scene

A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.

- Joel Surnow

source: "Christopher Meloni and Writer/Director Joel Surnow Talk SMALL TIME, Returning to a Script from 1976, Casting Process, SIN CITY 2, and SURVIVING JACK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

topic: Good Movie, Dramatic, Scene, Bad Music

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

- Joey Santiago

topic: Influence, Scene, Grunge

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

- John Barth

topic: Artist, Generations, Scene

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

- John Boorman

topic: Special, Scene, Communicate, Special Effects, Storyboarding

Wildness is my suiting scene.

- John Clare

source: John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.235, Delphi Classics

topic: Nature, Scene, Wildness

I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

- John Clare

topic: Men, Long, Scene

Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.

- John Cowper Powys

source: "A Glastonbury Romance". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 849, March 6, 1932.

topic: Scene, Persons, Pathetic

The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

- John Rhys-Davies

source: "John Rhys-davies on Indiana Jones and Almost Passing on Lord of the Rings". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 18, 2012.

topic: Stories, Scripts, Scene, Shoguns

I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.

- John Slattery

topic: Trying, Television, Scene

Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America.

- Jon Fishman

topic: America, Band, Scene

I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards.

- Jon Heder

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sex, Thinking, Scene

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Marriage, Misery, Scene, Rest Easy

If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction..

- Joseph Goebbels

topic: Doors, Scene, Slam

We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.

- Joshua Chamberlain

source: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1998). “The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based Upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps”, p.342, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Sight, Heaven, Scene

Death is just the last scene of the last act.

- Joyce Carol Oates

topic: Acting, Lasts, Scene

When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.

- Jude Law

topic: Faces, Scene, Found, New Faces

My first sex scene - and it was with myself.

- Judge Reinhold

source: Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

topic: Sex, Firsts, Scene

It's pretty boring, working by yourself. The scene happens in between the two of you, and then you don't know what it's going to be because it's a kind of combustion. So, you do take something from every actor you work with.