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Quotes About Props

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.
~ John Wayne
To have been accompanied on life's journey by the symbolic and monumental props of the gods has been a continuing and reassuring source of solitude. Such props quiet the inner voices that whisper about the inevitable end of life's drama.
~ E. Fuller Torrey
The props of being a Leeds United player in my own home city is good and the rewards in football are very good so it helps me to look after my family and they are the reasons why I carried on pushing, to help my family.
~ Kalvin Phillips
O destino não é só dramaturgo, é também o seu próprio contra-regra, isto é, designa a entrada dos personagens em cena, dá-lhes as cartas e outros objetos, e executa dentro os sinais correspondentes ao diálogo, uma trovoada, um carro, um tiro.
~ Machado de Assis
Our whole life is like a play.
~ Ben Jonson
you begin to notice all the props surrounding these people, and you begin to understand how props define us and comfort us, and show us what we value and what we need, and who we think we are.
~ Anne Lamott
That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
~ Abraham Lincoln
'Mad Fashion' follows the everyday workings of me and my workshop, where we make fashion, costumes, props, and couture!
~ Chris March
For years, President Obama has chastised Republicans, used immigrants as props for political purposes, and time and again deflected responsibility from his own party's failure to act on immigration reform.
~ Mark Meadows
There's some projects you're - where you're worrying that the continuity isn't right because people aren't watching after your hair or wardrobe or props, or you're not sure you're getting shot at the right angle.
~ Cameron Britton
I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.
~ Lalla Ward
I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.
~ Amy Sedaris
The titles aren't merely props in New Japan. They're actually the focus of the company, and that's how it should be if you're going to be in this world, this business. After all, it is professional wrestling. It is presented as an athletic competition, and the titles should mean something.
~ Mauro Ranallo
When Brittany walks into Mrs. P.'s class on Friday I'm still thinking about how I'm going to get back at her for throwing my keys into the woods last weekend. It took me forty-five minutes to find the suckers, and all the while I was cursing Brittany. Okay, so I give her props for dishing it out.
~ Simone Elkeles
I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.
~ Barbara Windsor
Heard you beat up a cop." "No." "In New York City. Said so on the news. He's in the hospital." "I was just trying to escape." "Still, my man. Props to you." "Yeah," the other goon says, speaking for the first time. "Props.
~ Harlan Coben
The stage show grew gradually until one day they realized that all the props and special effects took up more space in the van than the instruments.
~ Michael Azerrad
I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.
~ Emile Hirsch
I think it's dependent on where life takes me. For sure, I absolutely adore acting. It has been my passion from a very young age. But at the same time I am very intrigued by the camera, and also very intrigued by props.
~ Amybeth McNulty
There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
~ Adam Savage
I like to add props to render the specificities of place - paintings, food, clothing, signs, infrastructure, music, sayings and slang particular to the region and particular to the character. And props shouldn't just sit there; they should get used.
~ Kaui Hart Hemmings
An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.
~ Melissa Leo
No matter how much freedom they're given, most kids are still glorified props, carefully shuttled from one secure location to the next. We're not children, we're eggs.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
The problem with country is we've turned the props into the play. Let's not just Solo cup and pickup truck it to death. Let's handle this in a smart way. Nobody is thinking about lyrical content, or how we're moving people, or what's going on in the background of their minds.
~ Tyler Childers