Top 60 On-Screen Quotes

Whenever you have chemistry on-screen, then you have to be very attracted to the person.

It is so important for young people to see characters with different mental health challenges on-screen.

Women should not only be doing action on-screen but should be a part of every other aspect of filmmaking.

For me ‘Meet Mila De Rabba’ is a very important project since it will break my on-screen villainous image and prove my versatility as an actor.

I’ve actually done a lot of on-screen, live-action stuff prior to ‘Adventure Time.’

People think I am confident, natural. I hope I portray that on-screen.

One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their on-screen avatars.

In the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, noted actors like Iftekhar used to get mainly police officer roles, Bindu ji would do a negative role, and Nirupama Roy was the on-screen mother. All this had its own charm. There was a fixed casting.

I stole a little snow globe from the set of the first ‘Pitch Perfect’ that I don’t think ever made it on-screen, so it’s not like fans would be tickled by that information, but I still have it.

In marriage, there’s a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.

Every time we have a woman on-screen, we can empower her in a different way rather than just giving a speech on the importance of equality and empowerment. I think sometimes we have to show her as powerful.

Many people tell me that my pairing with Tamannaah worked big time towards the success of ‘Paiyaa.’ In ‘Siruthai,’ our on-screen chemistry will crackle as we share a terrific rapport.

I was a glamorous actress in Mumbai. I had done Sanjay Gupta’s ‘Musafir.’ I wanted to know how Buddhada thought of me in the role of Supriya, Rahul Bose’s unhappy wife in ‘Kaalpurush.’ It needs a visionary film-maker to see an actor in a role that seems very removed from her real personality or on-screen image.

Let’s make it clear: women are sexier than men. They are a prettier gender than their male counterparts. And then, if a woman is comfortable showing her mid-riff on-screen, what is the other’s problem? Why does she face body shaming? Does a man face the same while going shirtless?

I definitely think an on-screen experience is universal, in a way.

None of my on-screen roles have been outright negative. They have all been grey, and that is how it is in reality, too. None of us are nice and sweet 24/7.

I get very excited when I see Govinda on-screen. I love him. What a great actor, there is no better actor than him in the country.

The motto of my institute has always been, ‘If they can see it, they can be it.’ And it’s literally true. If we show something on-screen, it will change what happens in real life.

I used to not even be able to order pizza on the phone because I was just so shy. I think that’s why so much comes out on-screen: because that’s my time to let go in a safe place. When you’re doing that, it’s all written down on paper, and it’s total fiction.

Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that’s just me – if they say I’m quirky, I’m quirky. It’s better than being boring.

I have always stuck to my on-screen image and I have no complaints as I have got some meaty roles coming my way.

There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren’t given complex characters to play.

When you’re in a soap, it’s fantastic, and I’m really grateful for the fans who watch you and support you. For me, it was the best experience because I was able to act every day and work with so many different directors and get some great storylines and learn on-screen.

I fell in love with Nawaz on-screen after watching ‘Gangs of Wasseypur.’ So my love story starts with him from there. I was quite nervous to act alongside him. He is an excellent actor.

I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That’s just not my jam.

I do not want to work to stay busy. I want to feel excited and challenged with each character that I portray on-screen.

In theater, the primary tool for me was voice. On-screen, it’s the eyes.

It’s one of those weird things you start doing: you get to have on-screen teenage children and play policemen. That’s what happens to you when you hit 40.

I was never reluctant to play this character; the only thing I was scared of was that Bua might be only subjected to insults on-screen which people might start taking it in bad taste. But it turned out totally opposite.

I resist the idea of there being on-screen chemistry. I think it’s something that people like to say without thinking.

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven’t done it in real life I shouldn’t do it on-screen.

I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.

People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.

I have done my share of looking glamorous on-screen in many films.

I think, more than my husband, my mother-in-law gets excited and proud and what not whenever she sees me on-screen.

It’s very difficult to get an audience to be terrified of what’s going on. Think about it: You’re in a room with so many other people, so for them to be terrified and to care about what’s going on on-screen takes a lot of work.

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it’s really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.

I am not against kissing on-screen but I definitely do not want to be written about for the number of kisses I have had on screen.

There isn’t a right or wrong way to be depressed, anxious, or struggle with PTSD. Mental health challenges manifest differently for different people, and it’s important that people see that on-screen.

Women look really sexy doing action on-screen, and it is my favorite genre.

Age is not a factor when it comes to choosing the kind of roles you want to portray or the kind of clothes you wear for a role on-screen.

I feel, it is essential to see oneself on-screen so as to be a better judge of one’s performance.

I think one in five Americans has a disability of some sort. That’s 20% of the population, and yet we rarely ever see people with disabilities on-screen, and their stories and their resilience and their zest for life and their humor and their humanity.

I just never thought in a million years that I would be, like, sharing a kiss on-screen with Adam Sandler.

‘Stree’ is something fresh and new. Audiences want to see different kind of content on-screen, and ‘Stree’ is exactly that. It is a unique genre – horror-comedy – which has not been explored much in our country.

When I was young, in my early films, the freshness, and the raw element in my presence on-screen was coming from my youth, and that naturally goes away with time. But the challenge of an actor is to retain the wonder and innocence alive.

But everyone comes to Hollywood hoping to get a role people are going to remember them for, and I get girls saying I was their first crush, or Asian guys saying Rufio was the first time they saw an Asian kid on-screen that wasn’t nerdy or stereotypical, so I was lucky the character that resonated was cool.

I played a bahu for six years on-screen. I really wanted to come out of that.

The same actor plays the role of a thief and a police officer on-screen. It’s not fair to look for role models in them.

As a presenter on ‘Daybreak,’ I am lucky in that we have a brilliant wardrobe lady who chooses our on-screen clothes.

There’s room for everyone, and everyone is wanted and needed. Whoopi showed me that. When I first saw ‘The Color Purple,’ it was so huge. That was the first time I had seen myself, my mother, my aunts, women that I had known my whole life on-screen. It gives us hope, and it gives us confidence.

My first on-screen kiss was lame: Nickelodeon. But my first real-life kiss was super cute and nice, but still very awkward. It was with this hot skateboarder with dreadlocks. He was my little Rasta man.

The people I’ve respected most in the industry over the years – Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It’s understanding that you’re now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.

If I wore a mini-skirt then it would become such a big deal, if I kissed on-screen then it was bold, it was glamorous but if the top actresses did it then no one would even discuss it. So I was like why do I have this sexy, wild and glamorous image?

A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

I’m not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.