Close-up Quotes

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.

The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

Cooking for me is a way to wind down. It's different from cooking on camera, where you have to do everything twice, for a wide shot and a close-up.

I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

My close-up was magnificent!

I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.