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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
Props is a true thug's wife. -- Nas
Props to Ornette Coleman for trying to castrate himself. -- Yoni Wolf
And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous. -- Morgan Freeman
Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it. -- Harold Ramis
I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives. -- Raoul Dufy
Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop. -- Joel Hodgson
An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it. -- Jeremy Irons
I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on. -- James Cameron
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new. -- Catherine Bell
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
Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be. -- Melissa Joan Hart
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. -- Kenzaburo Oe
I steal props from SNL a great deal. Almost every sketch Im in, I try to grab something from it, so I have a storage space full of props. -- Bobby Moynihan
I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character. -- Dan Aykroyd
A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line. -- Desi Arnaz
When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic. -- Nia Vardalos
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
The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. -- Reese Witherspoon
We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians. -- Stephen Harper
Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid. -- Chuck D
I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props. -- Talib Kweli
We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face. -- Chuck D
I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction. -- William Faulkner
A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing! -- Selena Gomez
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close. -- Carl Sagan
I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor. -- Lady Gaga
I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them. -- Mark Twain
Promoting a stock is like making a movie. You've got to have stars, props, and a good script. -- Robert Friedland
You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors. -- Jon Polito
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props. -- John Wayne
It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant. -- ASAP Rocky
I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything. -- Martin Freeman
We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me. -- Patch Adams
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
I can't even look at daily comic strips. And I hate sitcoms because they don't seem like real people to me: they're props that often say horrible things to each other, which I don't find funny. I have to feel like they're real people. -- Roz Chast
Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a classy, black Goth look. I love black, a few sparkles, false eyelashes and boots. But when I perform, I love fantasy and props. -- Jane Badler
It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn't matter. -- Andy Daly
I'm a 'Clash of the Titans'/'Star Wars' baby. I'm not a new 'Star Wars' baby. I'm not an 'Avatar' baby. That full CG doesn't work for me. I need interactivity. I need to feel the goo. I need to feel people coming out of animatronics and just interacting with props. -- Louis Leterrier
When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful. -- Harold Prince
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
Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long. -- Adam Savage
Choose your props wisely. -- Kristen Bell
Prejudices are the props of civilization. -- Andre Gide
A bad magician never gets the good props. -- Amit Kalantri
Remember, your not your props, create the magic. -- Harry Blackstone, Jr.
Writing is the thing that props me up. -- Horton Foote
I find my movie props in my neighbors houses. -- Zach Braff
Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels. -- Bill McLaren
Skills rest in your mind not in the props you make use of. -- Luke Jermay
The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us. -- Etty Hillesum
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I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop. -- Will Gluck
I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me. -- Darrell Hammond
I think there needs to be more care taken for the actor. You know, we are not props! -- Anika Noni Rose
Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle, Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble. -- Pete Rock
The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise. -- Pat Tillman
Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop. -- Joe Eszterhas
I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia. -- Debbie Reynolds
I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes. -- Adam Garcia
And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story. -- Patrick Rothfuss
We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show. I always felt we should have joined Actors Equity -- Peter Lisagor
Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum. -- Don Roff
Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves. -- Albert Camus
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. -- William Faulkner
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
I have to give props to my stunt double, who is the real deal and gets to do all the fun stuff and make me look good. -- Matt Barr
You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props. -- Mary J. Blige
I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish. -- James Patterson
The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages. -- Michel de Montaigne
If you want to have great sex, find a partner who really turns you on. Pills are merely props, and props can turn out to be a big drag. -- Jackie Collins
I steal props from 'SNL' a great deal. Almost every sketch I'm in, I try to grab something from it, so I have a storage space full of props. -- Bobby Moynihan
The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot. -- William Hazlitt
The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised. -- Macklemore
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Fat bodies are used comically. I respect Rebel Wilson so much, and Melissa McCarthy. I love them both. But so often, I feel like fat female bodies are used as props. -- Mary Lambert
I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of. -- David Heyman
I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort to build props and cosplay, when I was about twelve years-old. -- Wil Wheaton
I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange. -- Demetri Martin
Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most. -- Michel de Montaigne
Now I am short on some props, and there isn't nearly enough time in one night to run through all the ways I've fantasized about taking you, but I promise you this..." His voice deepened, "You'll be scandalized in the morning when you can think again. -- Jeaniene Frost

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