- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Insult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've definitely met nightmare Hollywood types who think they're getting twenty million dollars a picture when they're not. But they act like it. And they just insult everybody.
- Puzzle
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a clear plan to put radical Islamic terrorism out of vogue, and it should be eliminated at its roots. American SOF are part of the puzzle, but they do not, by themselves, complete the picture.
- Big Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The September 11th, 2012, attacks on the State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya, is important and should be studied because in the big picture, it represents a failed foreign policy that spans across both Bush and Obama Presidencies.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every once in a while, there's somebody who will recognize me and want a picture, which is cool; it's flattering.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I'm making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-'em-up picture.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film, you're kind of there with some people for two or three months or so unless it's a really huge picture, and then you go away, so you don't get quite as close to the people.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a fan holds out Helen's picture for me to autograph, I usually sign it Linda Hunt - just to make their heads really crazy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'
- Framed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020