A Quote by Gerard Butler

Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built. — © Gerard Butler
Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.
When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
That was Robert Aldrich. And that [Emperor Of The North] was one of the only times I actually got a part in a movie in the conventional way: The role was there, I auditioned, I auditioned again, and then I actually did a full-fledged screen test, which they shot on a soundstage on the lot at 20th Century Fox. They put up a set, and Robert Aldrich actually directed me in this screen test.
I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.
You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn't notice on set that on screen: bam!
I'll remember this to my grave. We all walked into a room to see the screen tests. The first screen test was Marion Hutton's. Then came Janis Paige [who ended up with a part in the film]. Then on the screen came Doris Day. I can only tell you, the screen just exploded. There was absolutely no question. A great star was born and the rest is history.
I had all these sparkles I'd collected and wanted to work in, but when I originally started writing it and it was originally this novel about all these people set in 1666, what I was so interested in was the New Science.
I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting. And then, I got a call about a week after I had submitted my tape, just saying, "They really like you and want to screen test you." So, I flew to L.A. and did the screen test. And then, I met Elijah [Wood] and did a screen test with him. And then, I had a very nerve-wracking few days back home, waiting and waiting and thinking, "This cannot possibly go my way because that would just be too good to be true." And then, it did.
It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on your mind's screen?
Funnily enough, 'Chuck' prepared me for '24.'
You sit men and women down and give them a maths test, and they will do fairly equally. Then you set up the same test, but with different people, and make them tick a box to say whether they are a man or a woman, and the women do significantly worse in the maths test than they did previously in a group set.
What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.
I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.
Funnily enough, I think Gary Neville is very interesting... and talks a lot of sense.
I consider myself to be quite shy, funnily enough. I don't find it easy to get the words out.
Funnily enough, 'Shooting Stars,' that stupid little panel show, is the most influential thing we've done.
Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet.
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