Picture Quotes

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.

Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.