Props Quotes

• I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

  Talib Kweli

  Honesty, Believe, Artist

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• Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

  Harold Ramis

  Hair, Acting, Actors

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

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• The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Mind, Nervous, Theater

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• And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.

  Morgan Freeman

  Dresses, Fabulous, Hats

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 13, 2004.

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• Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.

  Melissa Joan Hart

  Pearls, Shots, Wanted

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• A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

  Desi Arnaz

  Motivational, Real, Doe

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• The personality must be bigger than the prop.

  Harry Blackstone, Sr.

  Personality, Magic, Bigger

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• I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

  Dan Aykroyd

  School, Character, Play

  "Dan Aykroyd for 'Christmas with the Kranks'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Take Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic, where xenophobic demagogues have been allowed to turn the law-abiding workers who prop up their economies into barbaric freeloaders, all simply to further their nefarious ends.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Law, Abiding, Sides

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Being Yourself, Power, Joy

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• I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted.

  Geri Halliwell

  Trying, Exhausted, Knows

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• You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.

  Mary J. Blige

  Song, Different, Sometimes

  "Mary J. Blige Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 10, 2011.

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• A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

  Selena Gomez

  People, Cameras, Would Be

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• We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

  Chuck D

  Real, People, Television

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props, and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

  Jeremy Irons

  Love, Age, Acting

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don’t put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It’s something you’re supposed to do. Now, you can’t go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That’s stupid.

  Chuck D

  Stupid, Glowing, Voting

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September, 2004.

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• Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, People

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.55, Ballantine Books

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• I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

  James Cameron

  Couple, Opportunity, Directors

  "Filmmaker, Inventor and Explorer". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 1999.

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• I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

  Raoul Dufy

  Law, Conformity, Hours

  Raoul Dufy, Alfred Werner (1970). “Raoul Dufy”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

  Nia Vardalos

  Dad, Magic, Musical

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• The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.

  Catherine Bell

  Birthday, Stars, Fun

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

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• I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  More Time, Push Ups, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.

  William Faulkner

  Moving, Shadow, Looks

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• I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

  David Bowie

  Song, Expression, Wish

  "David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters - a classic interview". Interview with Charles Shaar Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Remember, your not your props, create the magic.

  Harry Blackstone, Jr.

  Magic, Remember

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