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Quotes About Screen

My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the character because even a fictional character is supposed to feel real. And my job is to find that reality and bring it to the screen.
~ Aldis Hodge
I absolutely know how to sit in front of a computer screen, that's for sure.
~ Aaron Stanford
I think real life couples on screen are kind of deadly. For the most part, they're kind of deadly. You'd be surprised. Unless they're falling in love onscreen for the first time, you don't have quite the same energy for some reason.
~ Amy Poehler
Commercials certainly pay more than films. I was pleasantly surprised at the profitability of commercials when I did my first ad for a popular soap brand years ago. I was paid a huge amount of money for a mere 30 seconds of screen presence. After that, ads have been a regular feature in my career.
~ Amruta Khanvilkar
The fun that I've had needs to be seen on the screen. I like the thought of a bunch of people laughing at what I laughed at - because my life is surreal, completely wacko.
~ Jeff Beck
There is never a first time in memory, it is only in life that the future is uncertain, in memory the pain always returns in precisely the same manner, rushing to the present, you have to avoid certain places as you go over the past with the eye of the camera, whoever looks at himself on such a screen loses all hope.
~ Ricardo Piglia
There is never a first time in memory, it is only in life that the future is uncertain, in memory the pain always returns in precisely the same manner, rushing to the present, you have to avoid certain places as you go over the past with the eye of the camera, whoever looks at himself on such s a screen loses all hope.
~ Ricardo Piglia
No hagas juicios en tres dimensiones de lo que sólo puedes ver en la pantalla de un televisor.
~ Richard K. Morgan
What we have instead are false memories aroused later and more pertinent to this later perspective than to the original events. Sometimes in matters of great emotion, one representation, retaining all the original intensity, comes to replace another, which is then discarded and forgotten. The new representation is called a screen memory. A screen memory is a compromise between remembering something painful and defending yourself against that very remembering.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
God knew that Leigh had witnessed her share of brutality, but she felt a sudden vulnerability sitting in a small room with two loud men who were arguing about bitches while the horrific evidence of a savage sexual assault flashed across the screen.
~ Karin Slaughter
The glowing screen made her feel oddly at ease. She had been without her phone or iPad all night. Andy had not realized how much time she wasted listening to Spotify or checking Instagram and Snapchat and reading blogs and doing Hogwarts house sorting quizzes until she lacked the means to access them.
~ Karin Slaughter
There's non-stop movie work for dwarves these days if they want it. I think it's because a lot of people are watching movies on iPads – they fit on the screen better.
~ Karl Pilkington
We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.
~ Christopher Pearse Cranch
The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.
~ Hamid Dabashi
I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.
~ Alan Ladd
Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.
~ Northrop Frye
Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.
~ Stephen Colbert
I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in Morning Glory with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
~ Rachel McAdams
I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
~ Hedy Lamarr
My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.
~ Penelope Spheeris
Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.
~ Conrad Aiken
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
~ James Broughton
If you think you can experience the power of the Internet on a 1-inch screen, you've got to be out of your mind.
~ Martin Cooper