Quotes About Stand-in

I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

know that it wouldn't offend me to be a substitute, because we are all of us substitutes for someone, especially initially:

You better be looking for another pitcher.

If I properly understood her métier, she replaces office workers temporarily absent?

Um, your prize…" Corey said. "If you aren't going to take it, I'd be happy to play stand-in." "I'll collect it later," Rafe said. "Without an audience.

Thus, the patriarch is simply a surrogate—a stand-in—for God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. His hands upon you are God's hands, and his words spoken to you are God's words.

Madlaline's stories stirred up an old restlessness in me, an urge I'd always had to strike out headlong into the world, to be dauntless. By comparison my own life seemed crushingly ordinary. I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness…feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer more hollow self.

Flags never add to a man, d'you see, just stand in for something he's missing.

In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.

Aleka was an obvious stand-in for River, who yearned to inspire the world But disturbingly, even in this pastel-colored idyll, he could only achieve that dream by dying.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

They were a susitute. They were what you did when you couldn't have what you wanted.

Adam knew it was childish, but he rationalized it in this way: carelessly harming other people was a decent stand-in for baseline human interaction.