Quotes by Debbie Allen - Page 1

I'm always moving forward.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Always Moving
Always Moving Forward
Moving
Moving Forward
Copy Quote
But out of limitations comes creativity.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Creativity
Limitation
Limitations
Copy Quote
Time management is a big part of the director's job.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Jobs
Directors
Management
Time Management
Big Part
Director
Copy Quote
Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Fame
Fleeting
Honey
Copy Quote
A director just pushes them a little this way or that way.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Pushes
Copy Quote
Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Big Budget
Budget
Copy Quote
I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Actors
Directors
Thinking
Copy Quote
The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Pages
Shooting
Understanding
Copy Quote
The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Biggest
Biggest Challenge
Budget
Challenge
Quickly
Copy Quote
It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Cameras
Cutting
Direct
Way
Camera
Cut
Copy Quote
In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Evident
Radio
Shooting
Scoring
Copy Quote
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Harlem
Indian
Play
Prophet
Riot
West
Brilliantly
Michael
Street
Plays
Ralph
Copy Quote
But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Rehearsal
Period
Solid
Copy Quote
Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Coverage
Copy Quote
There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Masters
Moving
Scene
Beautifully
Master
Copy Quote
The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Radio
Television
Today
Copy Quote
I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Design
Cameras
Looks
Rehearsal
Camera
Copy Quote
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Art
Literature
Years
Copy Quote
As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Concerned
Needs
Pacing
Reason
Ten
Thinking
Copy Quote
In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Language
Praying
World
Copy Quote
It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Men
Children
Golden
Thinking
Arm
Shot
Moviemaking
Copy Quote
You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?
Debbie Allen / Actress
Acting
Basics
Pages
Scene
Talking
Examine
Page
Copy Quote
I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Preparing
Always Look Day
Although
Look Day Every Day
Copy Quote
Making this movie was a great opportunity for me to explore high-definition. I'm glad I got to see what the challenges are, what makes it better. It works wonderfully.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Glad
Great Opportunity
Great Opportunity Better
Explore
Wonderfully
Copy Quote
Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Beautiful
Block
Independent
Copy Quote
The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Harlem
Riot
Texture
Picture
Great Sense
Happening
Paints
Copy Quote
I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Mean
Passion
Tired
Copy Quote
The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Movie
Collaboration
Color
Ideas
Team
Scheme
Production
Meeting
Real Collaboration
Took
Copy Quote
That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Liable
Scene
Vision
Way
Cover
Shoot
Copy Quote
If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Done
Feels
Like You
Copy Quote
I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?
Debbie Allen / Actress
Cameras
Looks
Needs
Good Me Look
Camera
Good Look Me
Insurance
Marks
Copy Quote
Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Inspirational
Success
Failure
African American
Copy Quote
I've had a lot of experience auditioning people, and I can do it rather quickly even though sometimes I let them linger and give them time, but I kind of know after I see them do a couple of steps. I know.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Couple
Giving
People
Copy Quote
The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Body
Clothes
Today
Sizes
Copy Quote
I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Dance
Dance Floor
Furniture
Real
Seamless
Smooth
Use
World
Directing
Floor
Lay
Staple
Copy Quote
My mother Vivian Ayers always instilled within her children that our opinions, our thoughts and our ideas about what was possible was important. My mother made me feel that I was important as a thinker at four-years-old. And I instill that within my students everyday.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Children
Everyday
Mother
Copy Quote
You have to continue to believe in yourself, know your value and continue to work on honing your skills. I was rejected by everyone but here I sit. So you have to stay in the game, you can't just fall apart. Hopefully those challenges will make you stronger, it did for me.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Believe
Challenges
Fall
Copy Quote
There was a time when fame meant that you were either someone who is really gifted in your field or you were making an impact or you are famous because you were a really horrible person, you know? But now, you can become famous by eating a frog. It's just not the same thing.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Frogs
Horrible Person
Impact
Copy Quote
There are so many famous people now that are not really gifted or talented at doing anything other than getting made up, putting on tight dresses, acting badly, getting married. I mean, what the hell? I don't know where we are going with this here in America. And we are setting a tone for the world, because everyone looks at what we do.
Debbie Allen / Actress
America
Mean
People
Copy Quote
Self-checkout is negative because more and more retailers are losing the personal touch. People want to do business where people know their name and communicate with them. With a world full of email and more self-service we will begin to start seeking out the basics from retailers who create emotion. There is not emotion out of self-service and most people buy out of emotion.
Debbie Allen / Actress
Names
People
Self
Copy Quote

Related Actress Authors

Mae West
Actress
Thursday, Aug 17, 1893
Saturday, Nov 22, 1980
Carrie Fisher
Actress
Sunday, Oct 21, 1956
Tuesday, Dec 27, 2016
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Actress
Tuesday, Feb 06, 1917
Sunday, Dec 18, 2016
Zosia Mamet
Actress
Tuesday, Feb 02, 1988
Zooey Deschanel
Actress
Thursday, Jan 17, 1980
Zoe Wanamaker
Actress
Friday, May 13, 1949
Zoe Saldana
Actress
Monday, Jun 19, 1978
Zoe Lister-Jones
Actress
Wednesday, Sep 01, 1982
Zoe Kravitz
Actress
Thursday, Dec 01, 1988
Zhu Zhu
Actress
Thursday, Jul 19, 1984
Zendaya
Actress
Sunday, Sep 01, 1996
Zelda Rubinstein
Actress
Sunday, May 28, 1933
Wednesday, Jan 27, 2010
Yvonne Strahovski
Actress
Friday, Jul 30, 1982
Yvette Nicole Brown
Actress
Thursday, Aug 12, 1971
Yuliya Snigir
Actress
Thursday, Jun 02, 1983

View All Actress Quotes

Top Authors

Les Brown
Author
Saturday, Feb 17, 1945
Stephen Hawking
Physicist
Thursday, Jan 08, 1942
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
Saturday, Jul 26, 1856
Thursday, Nov 02, 1950
Donald Trump
45Th President Of The United States
Friday, Jun 14, 1946
Albert Camus
Author
Friday, Nov 07, 1913
Monday, Jan 04, 1960
Kobe Bryant
Basketball Player
Wednesday, Aug 23, 1978
Dolly Parton
Singer-Songwriter
Saturday, Jan 19, 1946
Billy Graham
Evangelist
Thursday, Nov 07, 1918
Thomas Sowell
Economist
Monday, Jun 30, 1930
Billy Graham
Professional Wrestler
Monday, Jun 07, 1943
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist
Wednesday, May 25, 1803
Thursday, Apr 27, 1882
Bob Marley
Singer
Tuesday, Feb 06, 1945
Monday, May 11, 1981
Thomas Aquinas
Priest
Tuesday, Jan 28, 1225
Wednesday, Mar 07, 1274
Robin Williams
Actor
Saturday, Jul 21, 1951
Monday, Aug 11, 2014
Elon Musk
Investor
Monday, Jun 28, 1971

View All Authors

Debbie Allen Quotes - Page 1

App & Tools

Related Actress Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

App & Tools

Related Actress Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page