Top 105 Fine Line Quotes

I think that the more comfortable and the more you rehearse – granted, I don’t like to take the air out of a tire; there is a fine line – but I think the freer you are with your dialogue, for example, the more open you are to a good idea walking up to you.

There’s a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

Violence against women is real and something I feel passionately about, and the gateway to all that is wolf whistling. It’s allowing a man to impose his will on a woman who is just trying to walk down the street and live her life. It’s all about unwanted versus wanted attention, and, of course, there’s a fine line.

It’s wrong to say that there is no performance in a glamorous role. Even a glam role takes in a lot of effort. There is a fine line between being glamorous and being vulgar; you have to feel comfortable in what you wear.

There is a fine line between faith and confidence. Confidence has a self-reliance. Faith is really about giving in.

This is football: one day you win, one day you lose, and there’s a very fine line between them.

There’s a fine line between being careful and careless.

I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There’s a fine line.

‘3:10 to Yuma’ was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it’s a very fine line that divides these two.

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.

Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I’m a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can’t learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.

There’s a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

With thrillers, there’s such a fine line between what’s good and what’s cheesy and corny.

When you’re 16 and when you’re 17, you’re kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look out for yourself, while being able to look out for yourself and being treated as a child.

There’s a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

As a woman, this is one of these areas where you have to walk a fine line: the classic, ‘Are you soft and squishy, and you hug everybody, and you’re a cheerleader?’ versus, ‘Are you the hard-nosed you-know-what female dog?’

There’s a very fine line between martial arts and dance. Kicking with your foot stretched out, or kicking with your foot flat in someone‘s face, in terms of flexibility, it’s all kind of the same thing.

I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy – and pushing the line as much as possible.

For me, there’s a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

I am somebody who… – I’m not saying I’m perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there’s a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There’s no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they’re around you – even those closest to you – when you’re in that whirl of creativity and you’re grabbing those things out of the air, there’s no rational process.

There’s a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

I’ve always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.

There’s always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.

There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Because football is an emotional game, it’s full of feeling, and that’s why we try to train with a smile on our face. At the same time, we work very hard, but it’s a fine line, and you’ve got to try and get that balance right if you can.

Our job as pros is to walk a very fine line: be the best but stay healthy so you can continue to progress and be at the top. You can’t push the sport and yourself if you’re always hurt.

We do appreciate that we have a very conservative audience and we do try to walk the fine line of that and not offend anybody.

As you get older, you realize it’s work. It’s that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I’d love to know how to make that last.

There are so many cliches associated with mental health – such as the ‘fine line between lunacy and genius’ – which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

I don’t like to see anyone suffer, and there’s a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

There is a fine line between sensuousness and vulgarity. I will not cross that line.

I think there’s a fine line, and once you cross it, you are in a dangerous territory of overhyping your company, your service, and your product and sort of under-delivering. But I think we probably could have been a little more overtly confident in the early days.

There’s no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, ‘We’re gonna have to clean that up because you don’t paint with coffee on a table.’

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

It’s a fine line of doing what’s good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

And so it’s sort of a fine line where you want to be recognizable as professional wrestling but you also want to set yourself apart from what some people consider the standard of professional wrestling, which is the WWE.

It’s difficult, it’s a fine line when you’re a mother and a career woman because that’s what we do, we do it all.

It’s a fine line between hack and good comedy.

In the courtroom, it’s where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There’s a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I’ve always felt that way – I’ve been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

There’s a fine line between saying, ‘You can’t tell me what I can and can’t do,’ and taking on board people’s opinions.

I just tried to find a fine line between muscling in and staying relaxed.

It’s a weird dynamic – I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

It is a fine line between making fun of the right thing and making fun of the wrong thing. And the language oftentimes is the same.

A lot of times continuity is your best hope for taking that next step. Can you have a balance of continuity and some additions and bolster it and walk that fine line of adding and embracing continuity?

There’s a fine line between patriotism and corn.

It is a fine line to be this PG superstar and also a role model and a bad guy and playing off our personality.

Kicking is like a love-hate relationship. When it’s going good it’s really good. When it’s bad, it’s really tough. You just have to find the fine line between not getting too high or too low.

My past was so amazing. It’s that fine line of appreciating it and letting it go. I have my animal rescue, and I have my daughter and my family that helped me move forward.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

There’s a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

I think there’s a very fine line on guys saying stuff because you don’t want to be disrespectful. That’s not the point of it. But you also do need to – there’s nothing wrong with saying what’s on your mind.

Perfectionism and procrastination have such a fine line. You say, ‘Well, I want it to be good. I want it to be perfect.’ But what you’re really doing is not doing your work. You’re putting off showing up and being visible because then you’re going to be judged, and it might suck.

It’s very important what you say to kids. You have to walk a very fine line between talking about your life and talking about what you’ve done.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it’s harder to write. It’s harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

There’s a very fine line between one person’s reality and another person’s fantasy.

With the Raiders, you walk a little bit of a fine line. It’s hard to be objective, and it’s hard to be critical.

There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent – they’re with Disney! Come on. Or they’re with Warner Brothers. They’re all with somebody.

I think that there’s a fine line between comedy and drama.

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I’m still not sure if he’s a genius or very thick. It’s a fine line.

I always believed there’s a fine line between love and hate.

I never feel like I’ve been pushed towards a certain thing, but now, at 26, I do feel like I have integrity over my output, you know? There’s a fine line between saying, ‘You can’t tell me what I can and can’t do,’ and taking on board people’s opinions.

I am able to carry storylines. When you’re good at what you do, you’re going to work. That’s a good thing. But from the standpoint of being an attraction, sometimes too much isn’t good. So it’s a difficult fine line.

It’s a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden – as I’ve often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for.

Sometimes I think that there’s a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

The global ‘currency wars‘ are likely here to stay due to the fine line between legitimate monetary balancing and sometimes self-serving trade manipulation. But these artificial mechanisms lack tangible or lasting value.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There’s a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

It’s a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.

It’s a fine line to find that balance: to show people enough to give them the promise of something unique, and something they want to see, but at the same time make sure that when they show up for the movie, they’re surprised by what they eventually get.

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you’re fine.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It’s kind of a fine line.

There’s always a fine line between ‘What is the market going to bear?’ and, ‘By the way, I’ve got 2,000 unsold seats.’

What strikes me is that there’s a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

There is a fine line between something that’s gratuitous, that’s unnecessary.

There’s a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There’s some middle ground.

I’m an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

Shoes are the first thing I notice on a man. I like classic styles – not too square, not too pointy, not too fashiony. There’s a fine line between too much and too little effort.

We often speak of domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the same breath, and there is a fine line between the two, and certainly overlap in some cases.

Before filming I’ll be constantly thinking about my role at the back of my mind and slowly build up the intensity until I can explode on set. There is a very fine line between not quite getting there, and getting that bit too intense.

My mom. Growing up with her, she always taught us to say whatever. Like, ‘You think something, say it. Don’t bite your tongue for people.’ I think there’s a fine line with that, but at the same time, I’m a firm believer in speaking your mind.

All of the material for ‘The Fine Line’ was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We’d continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted.

If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them. Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they’ve already done. It can be an obstacle; it’s a very fine line.

There’s a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

People say I am a little bit weird with the way I go about things, it’s a fine line.

I think there’s a really fine line between innovating and being gimmicky, and we’re trying to stay on the proper side of that.

The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it’s a tightrope. It’s a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

It’s a fine line between commenting on social events and exploiting them in a commercial endeavor. This is the tension with which the fashion industry struggles – unfairly.

There’s been so many different types of musicals, and it’s a funny genre because there’s a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

It is a fine line between communicating and being too chummy. My players, when I’ve been promoted, have been upset by top-flight refs being mates with opposition players.

There used to be lots of legitimate independent distributors: Fox Searchlight, Miramax, Lionsgate, Warner Independent, Focus Features, Paramount Vantage, Picturehouse and Fine Line. Most of them have closed.

There’s a fine line between lead actor and supporting actor.

I think there’s such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy… how much space can you allow before that becomes distance? And similarly, imagination is empathy. That’s how you achieve empathy. It’s how you can be with another person and understand how they are in the world.

It’s important to have an examined life – but it’s a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There has to be balance in there somewhere.

When I did ‘Unforgettable,’ it wasn’t appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.

There’s definitely a fine line between tasteful and tasteless, and as a stylist, it’s a line you want to ride very carefully.

There’s the fine line between presenting your culture and learning about other cultures so it becomes global.

As a racing driver, you’re representing a brand and your appearance is part of your job. But there’s a fine line between being feminine and creating attention on yourself because of what you’re wearing.

There’s a really fine line between artistic license and artistic licentiousness. And history is a lousy filmmaker. It doesn’t give you all the ingredients you need. No story will quite fulfill that three-act structure.

There’s got to be a fine line where I can find I’m still throwing the ball how I usually throw it, but it’s able to dive down after a certain height and get to the guy.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Well, I think baseball should be fun, but there’s always a line. There’s a fine line with everything. Where’s the line between making it fun and making it disrespectful.