Best Screens Quotes

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility

I think it’s doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there’s a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it’s unrealistic.

My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I’ve got a few sides to me that I’ve never used on screen.

The nature of the internet is that you don’t know who is behind the screen.

It says something about the curious nature of film, that someone can be so alive on screen, when we’re all too aware that they’ve passed. it underscores how we’re mortal, and films are immortal (commenting on the death of Heath Ledger)

Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible… Her presence on screen is outstanding.

Chazz Palminteri is just the ultimate screen husband.

If I could dance like the ladies can, it would have been my arse on your screens.

To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater.

Joe Berlinger’s documentary ‘Whitey’ is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can’t take your eyes off the screen.

The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I’m after, what I’m chasing, and what I’m trying to construct.

I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

I love that you work out relationships with people as you’re filming just to get something real to play on screen.

I love great locations in movies, and I couldn’t believe I’d never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

It’s always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

These devils find a way to get at’cha. All it takes is some green and your face on the screen.

As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I’m not going to get the girl, and second, I’ll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

I don’t like to be me. I’m not so comfortable being me on screen because then I’d be a presenter. I’m not Jimmy Fallon.

Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that’s just me – if they say I’m quirky, I’m quirky. It’s better than being boring.

I don’t have control over what’s on screen, and that’s terrifying.

I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it’s also less like television, which is important.

There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don’t believe you find it frequently.

I’ve been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.

Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

So often you’re asked to play impossibly perfect version of yourself on screen that it’s nice to get to bring in those parts that you think aren’t as worth looking at.

The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others’ suggestions.

I would love to play Wonder Woman on the big screen.

Stuff me in a tutu and let’s screen experimental videos all day.

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.