Top 1200 Plot Lines Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones... You can remember every line to their songs. But today, how often do you remember any of the lines to songs? I mean, I know that one of the Lily Allen's last albums is called It's Not Me, It's You. But I don't know how the songs go.

To me, action has to come from the plot.

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.

You can't work across party lines when there aren't many of them. So I'm going to work across Republican Party lines because there are a lot of divisions in the Republican Party.

You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

What I have to outline is action and plot because I'm not particularly good at that.

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

Obama came in and said he was going turn everything around, and you can't. Give the guy a break. But I question a lot of what's happening. It's certainly going to reflect in my vote, but who else is there? It's a horrible time, because people vote party lines instead of what's good for the country. I think the whole health care issue turned so ugly, because of party lines, and that's not what that's supposed to be about.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

I always pity people who have to write my plot synopses.

Plot was always secondary in my mind.

I memorize my lines and I show up. I think it's just instinctual, and sometimes it's wrong and the director says, "No, do it this way." And then I can change, because I didn't spend all night practicing it this one way. All I do to get ready for the day is the night before, I read my lines once or twice, memorize them, and then I show up.

Everyone must hoe his plot daily.

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

Motivation is the power behind plot.

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.

A plot is two dogs and one bone.

Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's not that I don't know my lines when I do a film, but the pace of discovery is always a little bit more relaxed and nurturing and almost babying, in a way. Television toughens you up, and I like that, but I don't want it to toughen me up too much.

I love a life whose plot is simple.

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

Use plot to buttress a story.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

I don't relax, I don't celebrate. I sit and plot.

Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!

Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very unstable father in Death of a Salesman. She said, "Attention must be paid." It's one of the most resonant lines that I think he ever wrote, and I think attention must be paid to the truth.

The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

When it comes to a character, I make sure that it adds to the plot.

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I live with a few friends on a plot of land.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them now, you see the development of character and the twists of plot; but essentially they told stories. My mother didn't go to the movies because of a religious promise she made early in her life, and I used to go to movies and come home and tell her the plots of those old Warner Brothers/James Cagney movies, the old romantic love stories. Through these movies that had real characters, I absorbed drama, sense of pacing, and plot.

My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.' I was, like, 8 years old, playing a kid who had hurt himself on a skateboard. I had, like, three lines. I did the lines, and everybody in the studio applauded - I was immediately hooked after that. I was like, 'This is the life for me.'

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

I write largely plot-driven stories.

I feel like I know how to write plot.

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.

The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.

Funny bones, to me, are more important than funny lines. If a comedian is just not likable and doing the lines, you could read them yourself. Whereas if someone [you like] shambles out, and they tell you what a bad day they've had, they don't have to say anything. I love them. I want to hug them because they've been through something. And it comes back to empathy, always empathy.

Oh what would Rome be without a plot?

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a blast.

All I know is it was very easy for us to write the Barb character and I think that, you know, Shannon Purser - who had never acted before - just did such a brilliant job realizing her. And, again, without very many lines - 25 lines. And I think everyone feels like either they knew this girl or they were this girl.

Character is the plot in many ways

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

With a reality show, the bottom line is, there's no plot; there's no finale.