Top 70 Onscreen Quotes

I’ve always liked to watch myself onscreen because that’s how I learn.

I grew up looking for myself onscreen and never could find myself. And I believe that I am supposed to be Toula to show people that it’s O.K. to be different.

Vatsal and I are comfortable with each other which I think is helping us look good together onscreen.

Well, it definitely comes as a challenge to act as enemies onscreen when you bond with the opposite person very well off-screen.

The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That’s why it’s fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.

For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day to day life.

I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.

Never in my life have I been captivated by by anybody onscreen the way I was when I saw Audrey Hepburn for the first time. She’s everything a woman should be.

Sarah Paulson doesn’t lie. Like, in life. But she doesn’t lie onscreen, and you can’t take your eyes off somebody who always tells the truth. She’s the most honest person I’ve ever met.

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don’t like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don’t like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

Luv Ranjan does not believe in bikini bodies. Therefore, he always insists that we look like relatable characters onscreen.

I think that the more that we can show onscreen men and women working together side by side with respect for one another, I think that that’s a good message for us to be spreading.

I have fun on the set and that translates onscreen.

Cogsworth, the character I did on ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ could be a bit flamboyant onscreen, because basically, he is a cartoon. But they didn’t want Cogsworth to become Disney’s gay character, because it got around a gay man was playing him.

Personally, my favorite character onscreen was in the film ’15 Park Avenue’ where I played a schizophrenic.

‘Jai Lava Kusa’ is my best look onscreen.

Just like my onscreen character Twinkle, I’m extremely scared of rats.

I’m more interested in people the way they are than what they’ve done onscreen before. So I don’t worry much about the acting skills or the name, the status. I just think, ‘Do I believe this person? Do I like them? Are they interesting, complicated, have the right aura, energy?’

My wife – I married my onscreen girlfriend from ‘Growing Pains’, Mike Seaver’s girlfriend, and we’ve been married for 17 years – so marriage is very important to us.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

I believe comedy is the toughest genre to bring alive onscreen, but it’s something that I really enjoy doing as an actor.

For me, like, obviously, I want to see myself onscreen.

What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can’t buy talent, so it’s best to leave the word ‘great’ out of it. I think to be believed, onstage or onscreen, is the one hope that all actors share.

My first kiss was onscreen. My character learned to drive before I did, so when they asked me to hit the mark with that giant Lincoln, I hit the camera instead. Being an actor gives an interesting perspective on life. And in my case, an interesting preview.

I’m really grateful for the opportunity I had on ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ just because it was very different than anything I’d done onscreen.

Thinking back on it, I just really didn’t have very many role models to look up to when it came to Asian actresses. And in that way, when I would see an Asian onscreen, it would be a secondary-type thing, and that’s kind of how I ended up viewing myself in the world: as secondary.

Often our onscreen personas are different from who we are. Actors like Kamal Haasan, who is such a genius, has never played a role close to what he is in real life.

I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.

Actually, I’ve only been involved with one girl I worked with. It was Alyssa Milano. We didn’t actually have an onscreen kiss – we’re about to but it gets broken up.

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.

For a man it’s not easy to play a woman onscreen. You have to wax your body. You dress up a lot to be able to do justice to the portrayal.

We see so much violence in films, whether it is Bollywood or south films. People are shown blowing up each other onscreen. It’s like a seed that is planted and you keep feeding it with small doses. It’s cancerous and does affect society.

How often do we get to see trans people interacting with each other onscreen? We have friends. Hello? We’re people. We’re not just this isolated unit all the time. I would like to see us carry a project.

A love story definitely demands a great onscreen chemistry between its actors.

I’ve tried to go out of my comfort zone to experiment with comedy onscreen.

Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too.

I’ve wondered if ‘Harry Potter’ would have been as big if it was ‘Harriet Potter.’ Now that I’ve written a screenplay – and raising a son in particular – I’m looking at story content and realizing how limited women are onscreen.

If the script is boring when I read it, I am sure it would be boring onscreen, too.

I am honestly very intimidated when I meet new people and they expect me to be the onscreen Vir. On stage, I say a lot of things I might never say in real life; I am never the life of the party. People are quite surprised to see that I am more of a quiet artiste off stage.

I think it is easier to hear my voice than see myself onscreen, particularly as the years progress. Watching myself onscreen becomes less and less enthralling.

You can’t work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that’s helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow up with a person, you feel like you know them.

I fit well in the comedy zone. A plump and chubby figure goes well with most onscreen characters… it adds more value to what I say.

Every human being has a plethora of emotions. As an actor, we are lucky to take them out and portray onscreen. But in normal life you can’t do that. That is the charm of leading an actor’s life.

I seem to have the best onscreen mums.

If you’ve had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on – I didn’t know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop.

A couple of my favorite actors are Don Cheadle, Jeffrey Wright, and, may he rest in peace, Philip Seymour Hoffman. I’ve had an opportunity to see all of them onscreen and onstage.

One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It’s the lights.

Young girls need to see women who are strong and vulnerable and complex onscreen.

Emoting songs onscreen comes naturally to me since we do emote in the studio behind the mike as well. But acting in a full-length Bollywood film is a completely different ball game.

I’ve never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

I grew up as a Christian, and I always think of Jesus as someone right next to us, you know, someone really close, and I never actually saw that onscreen in a way that could be identified.

It’s incredibly unfair. You don’t see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

I think it’s probably safe to say that continuing our onscreen relationship in front of the camera is probably not happening. I expect Adam may well pursue things in front of the camera, but I’m most likely not. It’s not who I am.

My first time on camera was ‘One Life to Live.’ I mourn for actors coming up that the daytime soap opera is becoming extinct. It’s theater onscreen.

I will reunite with Ananth Nag onscreen after a while for a cameo in Vijayalakshmi Singh’s ‘Yaanaa,’ which sees her launching her daughters.

I love the smell of the Earth. I’m a good cook my friends say. I love cooking for my friends. So I’m totally the opposite of being evil. I think only if you’re a good person can you be very evil onscreen.

I don’t like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don’t know.