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I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'
Marilyn Monroe

Woman, Feeling, Feelings

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
Bob Dylan

Life, Work, Design

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Different, Behind, Governed

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
Soren Kierkegaard

Time, Through, Childhood

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.
Chuck Palahniuk

Alone, Character, Boring

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Billy Wilder

Focus, Win, Few

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
John Burroughs

Truth, Two, Acting

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Felix Frankfurter

Power, Real, Behind

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
Bette Davis

Tough, Big, Miserable

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
Tom Stoppard

Long, Writing, Often

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
Lady Gaga

Father, Job, Real

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
William Shatner

Suck, Direct, Filmed

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
Daniel Craig

Business, Movies, Enemy

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.
Jon Bon Jovi

Good, Rock, Sex

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Anybody, Cured

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.
Martin Scorsese

While, Story, Within

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
Brian Eno

Freedom, Point, Felt

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.
Ang Lee

Beautiful, Times, Private

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.
Ang Lee

Career, Regrets, Movie

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
Algernon H. Blackwood

Beautiful, Evil, Place

I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
Larry David

Everything, Happen, Write

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
Catherine Deneuve

Experience, Night, Before

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.
Catherine Deneuve

Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
Oliver Reed

Love, Live, Someone

Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.
David Cameron

Simple, Police, Pure

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.
Helena Bonham Carter

Sad, Short, Around

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
Natalie Portman

Family, Sex, End

I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!
Emma Watson

Rain, Nothing, Mean

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.
Diablo Cody

Hope, Find, Possible

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.
Alan Alda

Work, Time, Nice

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