Quotes About Lines

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that.

You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.

D)ialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. 'When you're writing lines...you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk to each other we never actually explain our terms. We don't say 'Sweetheart, would you pass me the sugar bowl, which we picked up for a song at that antique stall in Munich.

Even though the run of The Dining Room had ended five months earlier, and many of the actors had learned new roles since then, they still remembered the lines from Gurney's play that had been accompanied onstage by movement or gestures (as when Arthur holds out the spoon to Sally). Lines they had delivered while standing or sitting still, the Noices discovered, were much more likely to be forgotten.

I had done maybe three lines of dialogue, ever, before doing 'Death Proof.'

When you get a good script, and the director gives you proper lines, half your job is done.

When a film is good, the lines between single-screen and multiplex blur.

Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

There is a temptation for an actor to editorialize what they're doing. And you can't do that with Pinter. It's almost like a musical score. His lines are so specific, but they can mean different things to different people, like an alternating current.

It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!

This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is OK, you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it.

That is, unfortunately, true, Galaxy Commander Howell." Horse stepped forward boldly and flattened his palms on Howell's desk as he leaned across toward the other man. "But, whether you know it or not, I have won a place in the Remembrance. How many lines do you have in the Smoke Jaguar Remembrance, Galaxy Commander?

Do you want your scarf back?' I asked. 'No, just the girl who goes with it.' Oh my gosh, that guy knows his lines.

in your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world's face.

He's a spider. A web-weaver, with lines stringing out in all directions. He sits at the centre and interprets each tug.

The functional disenchantment, the sweet habit of each other, had begun to put lines around her mouth, lines that looked like quotation marks--as if everything she said had already been said before...[the cat] was accustomed to much nestling and appreciation and drips from the faucet, though sometimes she would vanish outside, and they would not see her for days, only to spy her later, in the yard, dirty and matted, chomping a vole or eating old snow.

In no country has such constant care been taken as in America to trace two clearly distinct lines of action for the two sexes...

I used to love to hear stories of that man's exploits! One of my heroes, when I was young. Riding round the enemy, harassing his lines of communication, falling on the baggage train and whatnot." The Prince's riding crop rode around, harassed, and fell on imaginary baggage in the air before him.

lifted her gaze to the last telephone pole on the street. A mass of black balloons were caught there, snarled in the lines. The wind was wrestling to wrench them free, and they bobbled and weaved, pulling hard to escape. The wires held the balloons implacably where they were. She recoiled at the sight of them. They were dreadful – somehow they were dreadful – a dead spot in the sky.

Part of me knew it was no great honor to have one's dialogue praised by a man whose films teemed with lines like "That meteor picked the wrong dude to mess with!" and "Uncle Sam, one. Allah...zip!"But

If you think of doing something in New York City, you can be certain that at least two thousand other people have the same thought. And of the two thousand who do, about one thousand will be standing in line waiting to do it.

Shatner commas: Oddly placed commas that don't seem to serve any actual purpose in punctuation, but make it look like you should take odd pauses, as William Shatner does when delivering lines.