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I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life. -- Deidre Hall
I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them. -- Cara Delevingne
Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film. -- Elisabeth Rohm
I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty. -- Sienna Miller
House of Style' changed my life. I literally had no experience in front of a TV camera before, and there I was taking over for Rebecca Romijn. My exposure heightened instantly. -- Molly Sims
I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to. -- Rowan Atkinson
One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet. -- Orville Wright
Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light. -- Leonard Nimoy
The truth is, working on single camera, show or film, you have no life. You work 60-80 hours a week. You're up before your kid gets up, and you're home when they go to sleep. -- Jaime Pressly
With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories. -- Lucy Walker
One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia. -- Oliver Stone
As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie. -- John Hawkes
Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic. -- Ryan McGinley
Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character. -- Linda Lavin
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can. -- Ranbir Kapoor
I think I've found a purpose in acting; it's something I truly love and truly enjoy. It makes me happy. It makes me understand more about life, in front of the camera, than what I'm living beyond the camera. -- Ranbir Kapoor
I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium. -- Carrie Mae Weems
I look very different on camera compared with how I do in real life. On camera, I look my best when everything is enhanced, especially my eyes - I like a smoky eye. In real life, I like myself best in tinted moisturiser, lip balm and mascara. -- Martine McCutcheon
I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films. -- Jonas Mekas
I live in Nashville, and I love to sing. When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful, but I do live in Nashville. I live the most boring life away from what you see me on camera doing. -- Carrie Underwood
Life without kids is like a camera without film. -- Dirk Benedict
If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on. -- Charles M. Schulz
Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life. -- Alexander Rodchenko
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat. -- Agnes Varda
I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. -- Gene Wilder
I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life. -- Jennifer Garner
The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life. -- Ansel Adams
I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus. -- Ranbir Kapoor
The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex. -- Nan Goldin
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. -- Steve McCurry
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good. -- Wallace Stevens
I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life. -- Kevin Systrom
It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life! -- Alicia Witt
I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera. -- David Hurn
Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life. -- Richard Jeni
I treat the camera like a personâ??I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them. -- Cara Delevingne
Direct your life to the lights of stars sparkle, as veil of legacy become camera and action claps to the dance of your heartbeats. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life. -- Jennie Garth
I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living. -- Christopher Guest
I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top â?? what more could one ask of life? -- Christopher Doyle
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting. -- Sebastian Stan
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century. -- Carlos Fuentes
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum. -- Ansel Adams
When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with. -- Glenn Ford
I'm an observer in life, not a participant. That's why I'm a documentarian who looks through a camera. I'm not a touchy-feely person; I'm not a seminar person. -- Joe Berlinger
If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life. -- Nicole Krauss
Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring. -- Diane Keaton
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh. -- Edward Weston

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