Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.
If I was on a third or fourth line I would probably be in the NHL, because you don't have to produce every night.
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.
People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.
[last lines] Milo Tindle: Andrew... remember... be sure and tell them... it was only a bloody game.
[last lines] Christian: Can't wait until you back at school. Elias: Me too.
In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.
I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
I travel to Chicago a lot. And I've followed Obama through his Senate race and beyond. I found him to be an exceptional candidate who was able to transcend ethnic and racial lines.
[last lines] Dr. Caligari: Now I also know how to cure him.
[first lines] Dante Hicks: [on his cellphone] Yeah, I got a fire at the Quick Stop. Yeah.
[first lines] Vincent: You OK? Airport Man: Yeah, I'm fine mate, don't worry about it.
[last lines] Salvatore 'Toto' Di Vita - Adult: Yes, of course. We'll talk later.
[repeated line] David Kleinfeld: [brandishing a weapon, and grinning psychotically] How does it feel? Huh?
Dreyfus: [Last lines as he clutches a detonator] I'm saving the human race [triggers an explosion]
