Silent Quotes

This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought.
Jean Dujardin

Thought, Making, Film

For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing.
Jean Dujardin

Music, Challenge, Alive

I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.
Jean Dujardin

Feeling, Show, Film

I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!
Jean Dujardin

America, Another, American

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.
Susan Rice

Alone, Rather, Action

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'
Jennifer Weiner

Sometimes, Kids, Write

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
Edward James Olmos

Remember, American, Played

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
Richard Powers

Time, Nothing, Human

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.
Peter King

Future, Done, Down

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.
Theodore C. Sorensen

Leadership, Giving, Serious

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.
Constance Baker Motley

Today, Question, Race

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
Aubrey Plaza

Work, Off, Step

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?
Kirk Douglas

Wait, Talk, Actor

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.
Gloria Allred

Women, Against, Longer

I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
Namie Amuro

Try, Everyone, Meaning

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
Jonathan Lethem

Bear, Skull, Ringing

No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.
Michael Strahan

Amazing, Mind, Powerful

It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.
Anita Hill

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
Richard Le Gallienne

Love, Beauty, Speaks

Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

God, Deserve, Yesterday

To be silent is to be passive.
Octavia Spencer

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.
Bruce Beresford

Movies, Down, Put

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
Bess Truman

Husband, Woman, Place

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
William Gilmore Simms

Men, Remember, Made

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.
Mary Harris Jones

Men, Fight, Sometimes

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.
Al Lewis

Audience, Radio, Tv

There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.
Richard Morris

Nothing, Again, Song

My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.
Pedro Martinez

Big, Actually, Player

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
Walter Murch

Saying, Read, Actually

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson

War, Felt, Hated

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