Quotes About Set

The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.

We have audiences within our audiences who only care about the greatest hits - but new material brings vitality to the set, and should stop you calcifying and being a museum piece.

To this day, I remember vividly Missy Elliott, Ludacris, and my grandma riding in a golf cart to set. My grandma went back to Ohio and told her bowling friends, 'Guess what? I was riding to set with Missy and Ridiculous!'

You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.

What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperative... and end up with a terrible movie. And you can have a set that's really horrible as far as relationships and volatility, and come up with a great movie. Sometimes that energy gets infused into what ends up on film - it's interesting in that way.

I did a couple quick things with Nicole Kidman, and I really loved that. She was a really cool person to chat with and had a really lovely presence on set. I'm a big admirer of her work. It's amazing the volume of work she does.

Now I've been embraced by the real von Trapps. Those eight months I spent on that film set have been a gift for the rest of my life.

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

I would rather be on the set than doing anything.

I love 'I Love Lucy,' and I have the DVD set of 'I Love Lucy.'

I didn't have the regular high school experience. My experiences were on sets.

I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.

Growing up as a child actress, I was tutored on movie and TV sets.

I've met Shah Rukh a couple of times. He had even dropped by on the sets of 'Agent Vinod'.

On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.

When you're shooting a movie, it's two months of your life usually. You don't really have time to see anybody else. Your friends are put on hold while you're shooting, and what you have is the family that you create on set.

I never gave much thought to anything since I was 22 years old, when I got into the arts, so when Larry David came to my house in 2000, I didn't even think about it - I just thought about showing up on the set.

Both 'OC' and 'Everwood,' there were people on set where you learned to stay away from them on a bad day.

I try not to read acting books any more, but they set a high bar for me very early on.

You have to pick your battles on set.

Man, Dr. Dre just inspired me so much. Just him personally, outside of music, too. You know, him doing the whole Beats thing... People like him, they set the bar high for me to set the bar even higher, you know? It's more than just music when it comes to building a foundation and building your empire.

Magic came from within, from turning a secret key that lurked inside, waiting for the words to set it free. The

With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!

When I was 16, I was in a film called 'The Patriot.' I spent every second I could on the set watching the director and his team bring America circa 1775 to life. From that moment on, I was hooked.