Camera Presence Quotes

I don't like working by a monitor. I stand right next to the camera, and I'm very performance-oriented. That really means everything to me, whether it's doing an improv of a joke or an emotional scene, and everything in between.

Even if one is not a great actor, just being in front of the camera requires a lot of effort.

I do come alive in front of a camera. The first video I ever made was a formative moment for me.

I have a tendency to trail off in conversations. I don't look up at people sometimes when I talk or cook, and those are all pretty bad no-no's being in front of the camera.

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

Baby she look like a star, but only on camera, only on camera, only on camera.

I'm not used to being in front of a camera as myself. I'm not used to watching myself as myself.

So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.

When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely honed defense mechanism from when I was a kid, and I was now using this to make a living on camera.

I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.

There's always a temptation to get in front of the camera. It's part of my personality.

I don't need a coach to tell me what to say. I need a coach to figure out what kind of shirt to wear and how to look at the camera and how to avoid, you know, picking your nose on camera.

I have fun, but I don't always want it to be on camera.

Film, television, and working with a camera is such an intimate art form that if a camera is right on you, and I've got your face filling the screen, you have to be real. If you do anything that is fake, you're not going to get away with it, because the camera is right there, and the story is being told in a very real way.

I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.

It is very difficult for me to accept the fact that I am acting in front of the camera.

I think it's probably safe to say that continuing our onscreen relationship in front of the camera is probably not happening. I expect Adam may well pursue things in front of the camera, but I'm most likely not. It's not who I am.

I don't think a camera and a cameraman can destroy a family.

I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.

When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.

People just like to be on camera. There's a huge desire to be in front of the camera, and once there, people will say and do almost anything. It's sort of a drug, and I think people get addicted to it.

I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

Jerry 'The King' Lawler might be the most talented man I've ever worked with. He comes in, he's cool as a cucumber, and then all of a sudden, as soon as the camera comes on, it was a dream. It was an absolute dream come true to spar and share the same airspace with a guy I've respected for a long, long time.