Offscreen Quotes

#1. I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.

Susan Sarandon

#2. Elizabeth Taylor was the first star for whom an offscreen narrative was equally as important as an onscreen one. Her private life became as much of a driving force of her fame and success as any role she played in the movies.

William J. Mann

#3. Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.

Jeanine Basinger

#4. You're not seeing anything, saying anything. The weird paradox is that you think you're at the center of things, and that makes your opinions more valuable, but you yourself are becoming less vibrant. I bet you haven't done anything offscreen in months.

Dave Eggers

#5. You've been in Hollywood long enough to know that all the real acting happens offscreen.

Rachel Shukert

#6. Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

Ivan Turgenev

#7. Beware the past, Kelsea. Be a steward.

Erika Johansen

#8. Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.

Flannery O'Connor

#9. Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action.

Alan Cole

#10. The NGOs in Israel should devote more time to monitoring religious anti-Israel groups, chief among them the so-called "Christian Palestinianists."

Manfred Gerstenfeld

#11. [Technology] has taught us how to become gods before we have learned to be men.

Herbert Joseph Muller

#12. I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#13. Sheep?"
"Sheep."
"Sheep!"
...
"Yes, as in baaaa.

Gail Carriger

#14. Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

Henry Spencer

#15. The law has no power over heroes.

Charlotte Lennox