Movie Sets Quotes

• I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

  Tom Glavine

  Movie, Taken, Skills

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• I remember reading this thing that Elizabeth Taylor wrote. She had her first kiss in character. On a movie set. It really struck me. I don't know how or why, but I had this sense that if I wasn't really careful, that could be me. That my first kiss could be in somebody else's clothes. And my experiences could all belong to someone else.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, Reading, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Training not only anchors my day but also allows me to tap into endless energy and intensity. Whether I was performing at Wrestlemania or shooting a 16 hour day on a movie set, training allows the floodgates to open. It carries me through the rest of the day and night.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Night, Anchors, Work Out

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• I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Scary, Everyday, Goes On

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• That’s not who we are as a nation, and let me tell you why: Because the Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy’s flipping burgers—she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not.

  Eva Longoria

  Doe, Burgers, Who We Are

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.

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• I adore going to movie sets and being part of a team trying to create something. And yet, I hate to miss even one bedtime with my girls. . . My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult--especially that question of how you find a balance.

  Jennifer Garner

  Girl, Mother, Hate

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• The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Safe Environment, Joy, Acting

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Privacy settings engaged" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.

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• Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

  Melanie Griffith

  Movie, Eight, Everyday

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• Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

  Melissa Leo

  Actors, Recess, Playgrounds

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’ve always lived out of a suitcase. I was in a new city every three months. When I was a model, I traveled the world, and as an actor you’re traveling from movie set to movie set. So I’ve never been in one place long enough for anything super-bad to happen.

  Krysten Ritter

  Cities, Long, Three

  "Krysten Ritter and The Number 23". Interview with Ned Hepburn, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Real, Wonderful, Bubbles

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• I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many takes and hours pass. Reflectors and lights are added, footprints are smoothed away, so that there are no telltale clues as the day wears on. When the shot is finished and the plugs are pulled, time seems to leap forward in a matter of seconds. Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

  Eleanor Coppola

  Moving, Thinking, Light

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• I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will find it surprising. I'm one of the worst 'corpses' on a movie set, which means you can't keep a straight face. You start to get the giggles and you can't stop.

  Christian Bale

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

  C. Wright Mills

  Technology, Media, Fiction

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.333, Oxford University Press

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• The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

  Federico Fellini

  Dictator, Stills

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• Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

  Daniel Craig

  Movie, People, Actors

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• I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Growing Up, School, Parent

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.

  Artie Lange

  Running, Country, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm at my happiest when I'm on a movie set. It's like therapy for me.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Therapy

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• A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Stars, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, Thinking, People

  "Charlize Theron And Kristen Stewart". Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

  Gene Tierney

  Eccentric, Behavior

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Hollywood, Pseudo, Looking Good

  "Anurag Kashyap: Bollywood is to blame for India's inability to deal with reality". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, Paper, Mouths

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.

  Helen Hunt

  Daughter, Mother, Kids

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