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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away. -- Harold Macmillan

Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you're after. A big broad moment that gets the crew laughing, usually isn't going to translate to an audience. -- Nicholas Stoller

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding. -- Peter Brook

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself. -- Peter Scolari

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story. -- Henry Cloud

There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The Ring 1) -- Deyth Banger

CURTAIN CALL
The world is our stage and the final act can highlight or ruin a beautiful play -- Kamil Ali

Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity, periods reaching completion, pressures reaching the bursting point, and the simple but painful cultivation of awareness. -- Robert Grudin

The scene has not been composed, but merely selected -- Bruce Barnbaum

Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The river is the actor's thoughts and emotions. -- Sanford Meisner

You can choose to create a drama and get what you acted for or remain silent and get what you planned for. -- Gloria D. Gonsalves

Love your scenes, and they'll love you in return. -- Larry Brooks

The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life. -- Neve Campbell

You ever have that happen where you meet someone and just
clash? We were like a gravel and cream sandwhich."
"That is the weirdest thing you have ever said. I suppose you were the cream?" "Of course I was the cream. Sha."
Eve Rosser, The Drama Queen's Last Dance (Rachel Caine) -- P.c. Cast

Plot is character in action. -- Maren Elwood

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama. -- Eckhart Tolle

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. -- Alexander Woollcott

When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience. -- Atom Egoyan

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur. -- Ralph Fiennes

You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story. -- Harrison Ford

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time. -- William Goldman

I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience. Once you start doing that, you get into really dangerous territory. I think you start to become kind of untrue to the character. -- Dean Winters

You know, you're never going to be late for a scene - the scene you're designed to be in. -- Art Hochberg

Good drama must be drastic. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality. -- Kyle Chandler

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for. -- Aaron Sorkin

The instructor stared at me with cold, cut-me-no-slack determination, then got into a fighting stance, holding one hand out, beckoning me.
"I saw that movie too!"I said."It was like the coolest movie of all-"
He launched himself at me.
That was when his day really went downhill. -- James Patterson

Happy ending roll credits
pick our way out, over
crushed pieces of popcorn
to emerge
into the glaring light of day -- Kelly Bingham

A good fight scene is really a good love scene. -- Gayle Forman

Show me a beautiful man whose heart trembles behind the scene of a theatre, and I shall love him forever. -- Sofia Navarro

You don't need a love scene to show love. -- Lee Grant

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone. -- Bruce Davison

As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene. -- Martin Freeman

You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment. -- Brian Michael Bendis

Thought myself clear of drama. Done my part. Liberated Jack to do whatever with whomever.
(delusional girl)
Contrairio.
(not sure what language contrairio, sorry)
Dangerous to underestimate enemies. -- Harriet Showman

You can't just enter scene like that and disappear. -- Rae Hachton

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives. -- A.d. Posey

Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth. -- Constantin Stanislavski

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible. -- Leo Tolstoy

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear. -- Patrick Swayze

There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet. -- George Eliot

In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day! -- Angie Dickinson

Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in the finished product. -- Richard Corliss

Drama don't arrive by surprise; it is summoned, undisguised. -- T.f. Hodge

We need to get out," I said. My voice sounded raw to me. "Trouble coming."
"No," said a beautiful Sidhe baritone. "Trouble is here."
They appeared from behind their veils, one by one, with so much melodrama that I was mildly surprised that they hadn't each struck some kind of kung fu pose. -- Jim Butcher

Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle? -- Marilyn Monroe

The Godfather has, maybe, one good scene. -- Serge Ibaka

A taxi. The driver vaults out and screams "Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!" pointing at Samuel as if to specially emphasize that it is him - and no one else - who needs to be fucked. -- Nathan Hill

JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!"
"Um," I said.
"We kissed," the Duke said.
"That's kinda gay," Keun said.
"I AM A GIRL."
"Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin," Keun said. -- John Green

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. -- Henry Home

Never let your actors go before they are satisfied with a scene. -- Catherine Corsini

Stage-struck! cried Meg, and -- Louisa May Alcott

An image of Sydney's face appeared in my mind's eye, calm and lovely.
I believe in you.
My anxiety faded.
I took a deep breath and met the gazes of all those watching me in the room.
Who was I to do this?
I was Adrian Ivashkov.
And I was about to kick some ass. -- Richelle Mead

Wherever there is human nature, there is drama. -- Agatha Christie

I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work. -- Jack Falahee

I became aware of applause. It seemed natural. I had been living in the world of romantic comedy and this was the final scene. But it was real. The entire University Club dining room had been watching. I decided to complete the story according to tradition and kissed Rosie. -- Graeme Simsion

We need to run from here."
Everyone in the backseat started taking off their clothes.
"What the fuck are you doing! This isn't orgy time. It's fucking kick ass time."
"We're going to shift, you idjit," Shannon said.
Harsh but she was right. I was being dense. -- Aileen Erin

In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk. -- Carice Van Houten

I'm done. I'm going to go to bed and read important books about theater."
"It would would be easier if you just said porn," Scarlett said.
"No idea what you're talking about. But knock first if you need me. -- Maureen Johnson

Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. -- Harvey Korman

There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out. -- Tate Taylor

This scene may disturb you, so you have to pay attention. -- Zane

Excuse me," I said. "But ... can you see?" "No!" screamed Wasp from behind the wheel. "No!" screamed Tempest from the middle. "Of course!" screamed Anger by the shotgun window. -- Rick Riordan

I've been stealing scenes all my life. -- Mickey Rooney

Imagine what would have happened if you hadn't heard
her coming."
"Screw you," I growled, and grabbed his collar to drag
him out of the stall.
"In a public restroom, Ellie? Really? Didn't think you were
that kind of girl. -- Courtney Allison Moulton

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die. -- Gael Garcia Bernal

When i believe in everything, I could not see
the actors semicircled around a studio microphone
flipping the pages of scripts in unison.
I only heard the voices, resonant, electric, adult,
accusing each other of murder. -- Billy Collins

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama. -- Cornel Wilde

What's more awkward than doing a shower scene? Rehearsing a shower scene. -- Cobie Smulders

The moment is supreme. -- Franz Schubert

That left Cam, who was standing close to
Daniel, their arms clapped around each other's
shoulders.
"You pulled it off, brother."
"Course I did." Daniel played at being
haughty, but it came off as love. "Thanks to
you. -- Lauren Kate

To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day. -- Nelson Rodrigues

The whole scene was indecent, mad. It smacked of murder and assassination. -- Charles Bukowski

I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere. -- Chris Bailey

If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on. -- Anita Loos

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people. -- Gelsey Kirkland

One of the things you have to understand with The Room, I never approached a studio to produce, because I know no one in Hollywood will produce this. I came to Hollywood and I said "I will produce this movie the way I want it." -- Tommy Wiseau

It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism. -- Rafael Yglesias

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes. -- Howard Hawks

I have been directing and involved in producing and the creating of films for quite a while as well as acting. I always think in terms of what the director needs, and not just for this scene but for the film. -- George Clooney

Nothing about this scene is right, but at this point, I'm so full of wrong, I'll do whatever they want and ask myself for forgiveness later. I'm driving the bus to hell anyway. May as well take a little vacation while I'm in town. -- Kendall Grey

As Dave was ruffling my hair and Greg was slapping me five we heard the sound of sneakers skidding to a halt on the slick hospital floor. I looked up in time to see a three-J pile up.
"What the hell is this?" Jesse asked.
"Back the freak up off our woman," Josh ordered. -- Kelly Oram

You don't have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning. -- Jonathan Lethem

Filming a drama is something which you can't tear yourself away. -- Joo Won

It was the sort of situation that would be ever so charming and warmly human in a film with Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith but that sort of film is only charming because they leave out so many details, and real life is all the details they leave out. -- Russell Hoban

Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene. -- Hayao Miyazaki

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene. -- Eric Braeden

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet. -- Patricia Briggs

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me. -- Marilyn Monroe

There's no need to make a big deal out of it," said Milo, but Glen was already moving towards the front door.
"I need to walk," he said. "I need to... I need to be free!"
And then he was gone, the door swinging closed behind him.
"What a dramatic young man," said Althea. -- Derek Landy

What we need, is a break out. Out of our lives, out of Seattle, out of the dumb script of girl. -- Lidia Yuknavitch

You and I are black and white - a film noir, filled with gestures, poignant and tender -- John Geddes

Ain't No Drama Like Bedroom Drama -- Renata D. Johnson

I hate when a director says to me 'Here's how I envision this scene' ... excuse me? It's right here in the script - I 'envisioned' it FOR you. Do what I wrote. If you want to 'envision', you should become a writer. Where the fuck were you when the page was blank? -- Harlan Ellison

The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film. -- Abbas Kiarostami

My first sex scene - and it was with myself. -- Judge Reinhold

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it. -- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Sometimes the best plays are performed behind the scenes -- Anna Adams

Theatre artists at the Globe have to ask themselves: how does this moment or scene move the story forward or contribute to our understanding of the story? It -- Fiona Banks

I am a bad actor."
"Not for me or my camera. I see the person, not some idea he wants to make himself into."
"I'm all idea today."
"I definitely don't see it."
"I'm playing the idea of death. Look closely," he said. -- Don Delillo