Top 43 Period Piece Quotes
#1. I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
Dagmara Dominczyk
#2. All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.
Steve Reich
#3. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
Mads Mikkelsen
#4. I wanted to do a period piece. I wanted to be on a show that people would actually watch, that was of quality.
Timothy Omundson
#5. I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.
Ang Lee
#6. I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.
Beau Mirchoff
#7. The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.
Aldis Hodge
#8. There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
Nate Powell
#9. I did a film called 'Victor' that I'm really proud of! It was a period piece and the true life story of Victor Torres. I play his mom, and it's a very moving film.
Lisa Vidal
#10. In a period piece, particularly a fantasy, the lighting is your own choice, the lenses are your own choice. It's really a great thing for a cinematographer to do. Everything is open for you. You can even be more creative and you can use more shadows than usual.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#11. I've always wanted to do a period piece.
Kate Mara
#12. There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.
Jenny Slate
#13. I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role.
Ian Astbury
#14. I'm not Russell Crowe. I'm not going to do a period piece.
Kevin Hart
#15. I've never done a period piece. That's something I'd be really interested in doing.
Janet Montgomery
#16. I worked on dramas before, I love sinking my teeth into something dramatic or a period piece, but there's something so fun about doing a comedy. When you go to set and your only job is to make people laugh, there's an unbelievable energy on set.
Skylar Astin
#17. In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.
Madeleine Stowe
#18. The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.
Dagmara Dominczyk
#19. Of course, it's wonderful to film any period piece - but especially 'Foyle's War' because the art direction is so imaginative and yet at the same time so real. You can open a drawer on set, and even though the camera never sees what's inside, it'll be filled with genuine 1940s documents.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#20. When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
Caitlin Moran
#21. It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.
George Clooney
#22. I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.
Conor McPherson
#23. I've always dreamed of doing a period piece, I just never knew what it would be.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#24. I would love to do something in the thriller category. Not so much horror, but I would love to do a full-on psychological thriller. That would be really interesting. A period piece would also be fantastic.
Brooke Nevin
#25. [Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice period piece, but that's not always the case. There's a deep human mystery in his work.
Agnieszka Holland
#27. I'd like to play with a period piece. Playing a girl next door in 2010 is so different from playing one in 1950, the way you talk, walk, dress, relationships. It's really fun studying all that.
Emilie De Ravin
#28. I would love to do a period piece. That would be really cool. And also like to do something transformative and have to transform yourself physically to become that character. Any interesting, fun roles, I'm attracted to.
Tracy Spiridakos
#29. I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those.
Dree Hemingway
#30. Any time you make a movie where you're living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it's tough not to take a little piece home with you.
Chris Evans
#31. I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of my life.
Carlos Miele
#32. Yeah, it's terrible really. Little fucking minions in there hacking away with their teeny individual pick axes, tearing away the lining of my uterus piece by piece, basking in glory every time I let out a little cry of pain.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#33. A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile ... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.
Dave Genn
#34. The reason I could last for that long a period of being up was because the piece accidentally caught the excitement and adrenaline from, "Ooh this sounds different from usual ... Ooh I like that ... " That was the energy that kept me up.
Marnie Stern
#35. Make your introductions and you're welcome to wander off with any of the women watching you like you're the last piece of chocolate on the first day of their period.
Avery Flynn
#36. It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they sound really dated. But when an orchestra plays a piece from that period, and it's going to sound different every time, it feels more modern to me.
Jonny Greenwood
#37. It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it.
Joshua Bell
#39. I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.
Molly Antopol
#40. I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.
Stu Jackson
#41. In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.
Donna Tartt
#42. At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.
Bill Gates
#43. I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.
Stephen Daldry
