Camera Quotes

I have the insecurities of any actress, I suppose of any woman. Even the most beautiful ones feel unhappy. Look at Bardot: she was suicidal. But I like to play with the camera. I like to ham it up.
Chloe Sevigny

Beautiful, Woman, Play

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Become, Party, Avoid

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.
Annie Leibovitz

Someone, Friend, Places

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
Annie Leibovitz

Used, Protection, Tour

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
Annie Leibovitz

Away, Reason, Here

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
Norman Mailer

Live, Giving, Child

The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.
John Cusack

Reason, Second, Hit

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Hunting, Thrill, Hunt

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
Berenice Abbott

Image, Instrument

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Person, Try, Put

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.
John Stossel

Business, Job, After

I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.
Spike Lee

There's something inimical about the camera and song.
Stephen Sondheim

If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can't believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl.
Mindy Kaling

Girl, Parents, Put

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.
Russell Baker

Good, Smile, Big

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
Susan Sontag

Beautiful, Successful, Become

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.
Bryan Adams

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.
Alton Brown

Success, Real, Reason

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.
Ashley Tisdale

Business, Old, Wanted

I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room. I used to shoot in a way that drew more attention to the camera and I've tried, in each film, to draw less and less attention to the camera. I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director.
Jason Reitman

Good, Sense, Fact

When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Sex, Forget, Someone

I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
Rowan Atkinson

Life, Almost, Though

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
Gene Tierney

Learned, Eye, Columbia

With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
Alison Sweeney

Amazing, Reality, Everything

I'm comfortable in front of the camera, but I can't act.
Lauren Conrad

The camera can photograph thought.
Dirk Bogarde

Thought, Photograph

Cooking for me is a way to wind down. It's different from cooking on camera, where you have to do everything twice, for a wide shot and a close-up.
Giada De Laurentiis

Everything, Down, Different

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.
Diane Kruger

Time, Best, Acting

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
Robert Duvall

Movie, Answer, Hollywood

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
Andre Kertesz

Everything, Give, Through

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