Top 60 Fine Line Quotes

With thrillers, there’s such a fine line between what’s good and what’s cheesy and corny.

I think that there’s a fine line between comedy and drama.

When I did ‘Unforgettable,’ it wasn’t appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.

It’s very important what you say to kids. You have to walk a very fine line between talking about your life and talking about what you’ve done.

There’s the fine line between presenting your culture and learning about other cultures so it becomes global.

It’s a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden – as I’ve often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for.

There’s a very fine line between martial arts and dance. Kicking with your foot stretched out, or kicking with your foot flat in someone’s face, in terms of flexibility, it’s all kind of the same thing.

There is a fine line between guilt and innocence.

The challenge of writing books for teenagers is walking the fine line between truth and what the publishers, parents, and the more conservative librarians want to hear.

The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it’s a tightrope. It’s a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

There used to be lots of legitimate independent distributors: Fox Searchlight, Miramax, Lionsgate, Warner Independent, Focus Features, Paramount Vantage, Picturehouse and Fine Line. Most of them have closed.

There’s a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn’t nice, but grumpy is funny.

There’s a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you’re fine.

There’s definitely a fine line between tasteful and tasteless, and as a stylist, it’s a line you want to ride very carefully.

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I’m still not sure if he’s a genius or very thick. It’s a fine line.

This is football: one day you win, one day you lose, and there’s a very fine line between them.

I don’t like to see anyone suffer, and there’s a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

For me, there’s a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

It’s a weird dynamic – I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

There’s a fine line between brave and mad. But whatever I do, I go for it.

There’s a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

I’m sure I frustrate the trainers – in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there’s a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.

There’s always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.

As a racing driver, you’re representing a brand and your appearance is part of your job. But there’s a fine line between being feminine and creating attention on yourself because of what you’re wearing.

Well, I think baseball should be fun, but there’s always a line. There’s a fine line with everything. Where’s the line between making it fun and making it disrespectful.

Kicking is like a love-hate relationship. When it’s going good it’s really good. When it’s bad, it’s really tough. You just have to find the fine line between not getting too high or too low.

There’s a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

There’s a fine line between artist and product. I don’t think the industry purposely does it, but I think that’s just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn’t become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you’re just seen as a tool to make money.

I saw ‘The Help’ on DVD. I was blown away by Viola Davis: she really straddled that fine line in the plot between what was tragic and what was heart-warming.

As you get older, you realize it’s work. It’s that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I’d love to know how to make that last.

I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience. There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

There’s a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There’s some middle ground.

You definitely need self-belief and confidence, but there is a very fine line between that and arrogance. I would like to think I sit on the other side of that.

My past was so amazing. It’s that fine line of appreciating it and letting it go. I have my animal rescue, and I have my daughter and my family that helped me move forward.

There’s a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

I’ve always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

There is a fine line between sensuousness and vulgarity. I will not cross that line.

I want to be relatable. I want people to know who I am, but that doesn’t mean you get to know everything about me and my life. I think that there’s a fine line.

There’s a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

It’s a fine line to find that balance: to show people enough to give them the promise of something unique, and something they want to see, but at the same time make sure that when they show up for the movie, they’re surprised by what they eventually get.

I am somebody who… – I’m not saying I’m perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there’s a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

There’s no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, ‘We’re gonna have to clean that up because you don’t paint with coffee on a table.’

There’s a very fine line between one person’s reality and another person’s fantasy.

I always believed there’s a fine line between love and hate.

There’s got to be a fine line where I can find I’m still throwing the ball how I usually throw it, but it’s able to dive down after a certain height and get to the guy.

There’s a fine line between lead actor and supporting actor.

When you’re 16 and when you’re 17, you’re kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look out for yourself, while being able to look out for yourself and being treated as a child.

I always reference ‘Mad Max’ when I think about what I want to wear. But it’s a fine line between that and ‘Edward Scissorhands’.

There’s a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

There’s a fine line between something saving you time and replacing a bit of you that could be useful. I’ve certainly become more and more aware of that.

There’s a fine line between saying, ‘You can’t tell me what I can and can’t do,’ and taking on board people’s opinions.

Think about scary movies: There’s a fine line between horror and humor.

In the courtroom, it’s where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There’s a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I’ve always felt that way – I’ve been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

I think there’s a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what’s going on. If we weren’t actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don’t know.

Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace – values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It’s the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.

It’s a fine line of doing what’s good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.