“It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.” HappensWould BeUsedBehindsFeetParticularTownsChinaScreensVillageContestsCurtainsBeauty Contest Author:Lisa See
“Apparently on the screen I look tall, ageless, and damned close to omniscient-delivering jeopardy-laden warnings through gritted teeth. But when people see me on the street, they say 'by God, this kid is 5 foot 5, he's got a broken nose, and looks about as foreboding as a bank teller on a lunch break.'” PeopleLooksKidsBreakFeetStreetsBrokenScreensTeethNosesTallLunchWarningDeliveringJeopardyOmniscientForebodingAgelessLunch Break Author:Rod Serling
“In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It's almost like an over-acting type thing - whereas on the big screen, you're 35 feet and they've got a close-up of you to put it on the screen in the movie house. At 35 feet, it's more subtlety than the overboard drama that we do in pro wrestling.” ThinkingWantBigsHouseActingFeetTypeDramaBiggerScreensWrestlingSubtletyOverboardBig ScreenPro WrestlingBigger Than LifeProfessional Wrestling Author:Kevin Nash
“TV is a different animal. I belong on that little screen. The big silver screen, not so much, 'cause I've seen my face up close when it's 25-feet tall. I'm okay as long as you keep me in that little box.” LittlesLongDifferentBigsFacesCausesAnimalFeetTvsOkayBoxesScreensSilverTallDifferent Animals Author:Steve Harvey
“You can always tell when an actor has grown a 'rhino skin' to protect themselves. It comes across on screen, and they aren't believable. They're dead in the eyes because they've been told a million times that they're the greatest actor that ever lived. If you don't realise what's happening, and get your feet back on the ground, it can be the worst thing that ever happens to you.” IfsHappensEyeActorsMillionsFeetWorstProtectHappeningsSkinsScreensRealisingWorst ThingsBelievableRhinos Author:Emma Stone
“You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.” IfsHappensFeetAccidentsScreensRehearsal Author:Paul Newman
“We were doing this close-up of my character on a cell phone, and the director's just like "Cut! Can we get somebody else's hand in there?" I do bite my fingernails, and you don't want to see a fat, bitten thumbnail on a 30-foot movie screen, so I get somebody with really nice, sexy hands and put 'em in there.” WantCharacterHandsNiceCuttingFeetDirectorsPhonesSexyScreensFatsCellsEmsBitesCell PhoneReally NiceFingernails Author:Miles Teller
“When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.” LooksLongBigsLinesFeetMouthsMirrorsSevenActressesScreensDaylightGalsBig ScreenRearview MirrorRear View Author:Sharon Stone
“It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.” GivingLooksBodyFacesBoysFeetMaterialsLike YouFoolDirectorsScreensDamnYour FaceEditorsDiceCinematographers Author:William Mapother
“By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint, because basically I had written - in "Kill Bill," I had basically written a novel, and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet.” PeopleKnowsWritingNovelWrittenSeeingFeetBillsFilledScreensProseScreenplaysBlueprintsAdaptingKill Bill Author:Quentin Tarantino
“You can't depend on the exposure of a TV screen to keep your feet on the ground and your food tasting delicious. You've got to push yourself.” FeetTvsDependsScreensDeliciousExposurePush YourselfTastingFeet On The Ground Author:Gordon Ramsay