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Picture Quotes
On screen roles, old movies, and the camera's eye.
Here the word picture mostly means film - an actor discussing how to play a villain convincingly, and a childhood movie memory vivid enough to cause literal nightmares for years. Related viewing continues in Life.
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- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like I tell my daughters, first impressions are important, so once it's out there, whether it's a picture or a TV show, it's there; it's gonna be out there forever.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.
- Hear People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.
- Evolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up in Zimbabwe, and there were seven of us in my family, so it was difficult to read aloud to us all. There weren't that many picture books around in the Fifties in Zimbabwe. My favourite was Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, which was really frightening.
- Motion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never on Twitter. I'm never on Instagram. And that's not by choice: it's just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain't really been my focus.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.
- Walking
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- Nov 07, 2020