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Quotes About Set

I remember doing my SATs on a film set; you had to complete the tests in a certain time and, obviously, you couldn't be interrupted. I think I did pretty well; it wasn't too difficult.
~ Nicholas Hoult
As an actor, some of the most fun days I've had on set have involved shooting blanks all day - or better yet, on a micro-budget indie shoot in Texas, shooting live ammo. I feel guilty admitting this, but make-believe beating a man half to death for nine hours can also be strangely satisfying and, dare I say, good fun.
~ Trieste Kelly Dunn
Appreciate good coffee when it's available, but drink whatever they have on set and always say thank you for it.
~ David Slade
I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.
~ Burt Ward
The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.
~ Donna Mills
Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.
~ Peter Farrelly
I always say the diversity, and culture is the one thing I love the most about the U.S. How you can travel across one borderline and you end up with this whole new set of people that I find super-interesting and great on tour.
~ Jade Bird
'Faults,' in a lot of ways, is still is a heightened film, but the end of the day, it's the real world. It's in '86, is the arbitrary date that I've set. And so I went about it in a more realistic way.
~ Riley Stearns
Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through the force of arms
~ Ron Paul
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it usually aspiring gangsta rappers who set such store by designer labels?
~ Lynne Truss
Let beloved idiots ruin their own lives, if that's what they're dead set on doing, with no attempt whatsoever at control or behavior modification from you.
~ M.A. Harper
When Zachary saw Annie, he entered the circles of overlapping time. Behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.
~ John Travolta
I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.
~ Sam Mendes
The present no matter what I brought couldn't change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
~ Ann Brashares
trust you are prepared for it, both financially and phy—" "We're all set," I said, cutting Janine off.
~ Ann M. Martin
There is, as we shall see, a real and precise difference between the number zero and the concept of a set that posesses no members - the null, or empty set. Indeed, the second idea, pointless as it sounds, turns out to be by far the most fruitful of the two. From it, all of the rest of mathematics can be created step by step.
~ John D. Barrow
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
~ John Dryden
Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it!
~ Clemence Poesy
Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.
~ Eleanor Tomlinson
I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'
~ Archie Panjabi
I doubt it is your style Not to get what you set out to acquire The eyes are on fire You are the unforecasted storm Brianstorm
~ Arctic Monkeys
That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.
~ Ramana Maharshi