A Quote by George Burns

What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.

George Burns

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Actresses Appear Did Getting Once Once Upon A Time Screen Time Today

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George Burns
American - Comedian
January 20, 1896 - March 9, 1996

In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.

Wadah Khanfar

Looking for happiness in the body, mind or world is like looking for the screen in a movie. The screen doesn't appear in the movie, and yet, at the same time, all that is seen in the movie is the screen. In the same way that the screen 'hides' in plain view, so happiness 'hides' in all experience.

Rupert Spira

For a young cartoonist, they have to get going on the web, because that's where everybody goes for their information. And it really works. If you look at a cartoon on a computer screen, it really jumps and can be quite effective. I draw cartoons now, not how it will appear in the newspaper, but how it will appear on the screen. I think most of us do. Now the challenge is to make it move and animate it in a very fast, quick way.

Terry Mosher

I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to me.

Kate Winslet

'Screen time' is meaningless - what matters is what you do while on the screen. The good, the bad, and the ugly faces of screen time will all have to do with which activities you engage into.

Daphne Bavelier

I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.

Philip Roth

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

Epictetus

I want to be in a space where, if I appear on the stage or the screen, the audience should not know what I'm going to do.

Pratik Gandhi

For me, stardom means when people know your name when you appear on screen.

Karan Patel

As the author you know how you want it to appear on screen and it's always the content dictating the form.

Woody Allen

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

Richard E. Grant

When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.

Vincent Cassel

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

Taiye Selasi

The number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand.

Rush Limbaugh

When I first started doing screen work, I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession - all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from southwest London.'