I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's t...
Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with.
I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions. And that's the bottom line for me.
Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing.
In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds.
In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.
Walter Neff: I get the general idea. She was a tramp from a long line of tramps.
[holding hands] Pat: Wait, what's this? Tiffany: I thought you were doing it. Pat: I thought you were doing it.
Pat Sr.: I guess his sixth sense forgot to tell him the cops were coming.
[to her sister and brother in law about Nikki being there] Tiffany: You're killing me!
Johnny Cash: WE SURRENDER! WE SURRENDER! June Carter: Y'all can't walk no line!
In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.
I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.
We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
Historically, the 'deadline' was the line around a prison beyond which prisoners were eligible for shooting. In keeping with shifts in the exercise of control, what one was delineated spatially over life is now enforced temporarily over labor.
