Top 182 Onscreen Quotes & Sayings

Nobody wants to see a woman onscreen who is a wreck. That is pure, unadulterated, systemic misogyny.

It's one of the things I always do. I move faster onscreen. Creates a sense of danger.

For me, like, obviously, I want to see myself onscreen.

I think Kriti and I have great onscreen chemistry, which translates in real life.

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

When that character and the X-Force appeared, they took the comic world by storm. You have to look at those numbers. And you see that that isn't Rob Liefeld's only creation. There's all these other things, like Cable and Domino. There's so many things that actually could be fascinating onscreen and unlike anything you've ever seen before onscreen. So I think Fox is in a really nice position where they've got something that feels as wide and different as the Marvel Universe.

My whole life I try to make into a comedy, so it would be nice to see that onscreen.

I'm trying to be what I want to see more of: Black women onscreen.

I love my onscreen frenemy, Dianna Agron! Having the opportunity to work so closely with her has been amazing.

Vatsal and I are comfortable with each other which I think is helping us look good together onscreen.

When I was growing up, there were people of color onscreen, but I never saw interracial couples.

If you understand a scene well, it is not hard to translate it onscreen.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.

You can't afford for there to be gaps in your pool of knowledge when it comes to a character; otherwise, what ends up onscreen is generalized and unspecific.

It defiantly helps the chemistry onscreen if the audience can tell if the relationship is real or not.

A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.

I believe comedy is the toughest genre to bring alive onscreen, but it's something that I really enjoy doing as an actor.

If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.

I like silence. Aesthetically, I feel strangled by the fast cutting and a wall of sound. And I think showing black people thinking onscreen is radical.

I look like a kid onscreen in most movies.

I have fun on the set and that translates onscreen.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

I think it is easier to hear my voice than see myself onscreen, particularly as the years progress. Watching myself onscreen becomes less and less enthralling.

Young girls need to see women who are strong and vulnerable and complex onscreen.

None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.

I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.

Never in my life have I been captivated by by anybody onscreen the way I was when I saw Audrey Hepburn for the first time. She's everything a woman should be.

Just like my onscreen character Twinkle, I'm extremely scared of rats.

I just want my music to involve an audience in what's taking place onscreen.

It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.

I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an actor.

I've tried to go out of my comfort zone to experiment with comedy onscreen.

Everybody sees things their own way, but putting it onscreen is a different story - you have to deal with production crews. That's what differentiates a good director.

Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.

The image onscreen takes you forward, it's the driving force of the piece and it's also the information that you're given.

Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.

It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.

Although jealousy is a strong word, who would like to see the person they love romance someone else, even onscreen?

I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

In general, in all my films, I choose to create a certain mistrust, rather than claiming that what I'm showing onscreen is an accurate reproduction of reality. I want people to question what they are seeing onscreen. In the same way as I used the narrator, I also used black and white, because it creates a distance toward what's being seen. I see the film as an artifact rather than a reliable reconstruction of a reality that we cannot know.

I seem to have the best onscreen mums.

'Jai Lava Kusa' is my best look onscreen.

Onstage, there's a separation between character and audience; onscreen, you can go to a deeper place.

I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.

For a man it's not easy to play a woman onscreen. You have to wax your body. You dress up a lot to be able to do justice to the portrayal.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

Luv Ranjan does not believe in bikini bodies. Therefore, he always insists that we look like relatable characters onscreen.

Personally, my favorite character onscreen was in the film '15 Park Avenue' where I played a schizophrenic.

A love story definitely demands a great onscreen chemistry between its actors.

I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.

I'm really grateful for the opportunity I had on 'Boardwalk Empire,' just because it was very different than anything I'd done onscreen.

On 'Catfish,' I'm a co-host and onscreen cameraman, maybe the second onscreen cameraman after Wes Bentley's turn in 'American Beauty,' which is funny and ironic. But before that, I'd been doing a lot of creative nonfiction.

Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?

I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

I've always liked to watch myself onscreen because that's how I learn.

I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.