Dramatic Entrance Quotes

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.

Celia laughs and a curl of her hair falls across her cheek. Marco tentatively moves to brush it off her face, but before his fingers reach her, she pushes herself off the ledge, her silver gown a billowing cloud as she falls onto the pile of jewel-toned cushions.

When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.

And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

I find that when you open on a group of people sitting down and talking, the scene sits down with them. The best antidote for that is an entrance. Begin the scene with someone entering, and somehow it’s more interesting.

So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

I fell out of the womb and landed in my mother's high heels.

She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."

...Tunstell was not what one could describe as call subtle. His flaming red hair bobbed up with each pointed and articulated footstep as though he were some cloaked Gothic villain creeping across a stage.

You only get one chance to make the first impression. And I made the biggest first impression ever by throwing the Big Show over the top rope.

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.