Screen Quotes

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

No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

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

I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now.

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I'd kiss the screen.

The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read "Wordplay" just as easily as you could sitting in your chair.

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.

I love writing for the screen.

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.