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Quotes About Set

So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.
~ Alan Thicke
In my daily life, I'm always struggling to be a better adult, to come to terms with reality. To show up on set for five or six hours and be completely out of touch with reality, or a piece of it, is fun in some sick way that I'm sure a therapist would have a lot of fun deconstructing.
~ Paul Walter Hauser
I'm at my happiest when I'm on a movie set. It's like therapy for me.
~ Lindsay Lohan
Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
~ Abhishek Bachchan
When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
~ Jackie Chan
I've been on the 'Logan' movie set, which is a 300-strong crew of basically men. They had arms thicker than my thighs stuck together.
~ Richard E. Grant
Between you and me, odd things happen always on set.
~ Max von Sydow
It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set. But a few seconds' thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance.
~ Stanley Kubrick
When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said.
~ Pina Bausch
There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.
~ Terence Fisher
A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.
~ Georg Cantor
In an emergency, you rarely get one consistent piece of advice. You usually have two or three people with two or three different ideas. So you want to have your own set of thoughts.
~ Rudy Giuliani
His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it.
~ Margaret Atwood
Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!
~ Zhang Ziyi
We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.
~ Glenn Frey
So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It's time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.
~ Dan B. Allender
The president of the United States, the most famous person in the world, maybe in the whole galaxy - in a long time - he had to spend like a billion dollars to set the record straight.
~ Nancy Pelosi
all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.
~ Joan Crawford
The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon
~ Tupac Shakur
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
Alone, we are doomed, but by the same token, we've learned that people are impossible, even the ones we love most—especially the ones we love most: they're damaged, prickly and set in their ways.
~ Anne Lamott
Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.
~ Anne Rice
as was his way, once he acknowledged the problem, he set about finding a means to resolve it
~ Sharon Kay Penman
I'm honored by your concern. I would like To gather all of the books that contain The words mother and grief, set them aflame, And dance as they burn.
~ Sherman Alexie