Top 200 Prop Quotes & Sayings

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.

I don't want to play a prop in a film.

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.

I would never want to be treated as a prop, to be looked on as an object just because of my gender.

Tradition is a prop for social security.

Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop.

If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!

Be it in Malayalam or Tamil, I got to play characters who had plenty to do in the storyline and not just be a prop.

I'm not a big prop actor.

In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

John Goodman is like the Jackie Chan of acting. Any prop that you put in front of him, he's going to take advantage of it in some peculiar way.

I play guitar, and it's not a prop.

I love bad comedy more than I love good comedy, so I love open mics. Or I used to. But the thing that delights me more than anything else in an open-mic performer is when the comic has one joke that requires some kind of prop. But only one. The prop is always produced very awkwardly, and it never, ever pays off. The resulting embarrassment is savory and delicious.

I like it when people are kind and I like people who are looking for collaborators. Sometimes you can feel like a moving prop, and that could be amazing, you can be a prop in somebody's incredible vision, but I'm more interested in people who are looking for actors they can collaborate with and make something together with. I like stretching myself, I like trying new things out, but I'm really interested in working with directors who have a very specific style and a unique way of working.

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

On 'Saturday Night Live,' you wear so many hats there. You're the prop person, the actor, you're everything.

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

I am a gay activist and I say that proudly. I voted no on Prop 8.

The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?

I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.

Don't bring a prop. It's almost like they were afraid nobody would know who they are.

Black Panther is a cool superhero and all, but let's be honest: He doesn't quite have the legs to prop up a blockbuster on his own.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

I like the prop food so much that I eat it between takes as well as on camera.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

I am no glamorous prop waiting to be presented as a showpiece in a film. Filmmakers have to look beyond that.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

People started to ask me, 'Do you really play guitar?' They thought it was a prop. It was just interesting, because of all the imaging stuff.

American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

It would be prudish to say, 'I don't want to be a prop in a film,' because there are certain films I've loved doing, as I have looked very glamorous in them.

There's a sort of unwritten rule that the more elaborate the task is, the less likely it is to work. If we spend a lot of money on a big prop, it almost certainly won't make it.

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

The wagering thing for a lawyer is very interesting. Will there be mobile sports wagering? Will there be mobile prop betting? Conceivably, someone sitting in basketball area placing prop bets on a mobile phone while the individual is 10 feet from the court? Some of the possibilities are angst-producing.

"It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.

I don’t mind if the character is a small character, but I would just like her to have a journey in the film. Sometimes the characters are just there as a prop to further the man’s story. The great directors I’ve talked to, I’ve said listen, I don’t mind playing a woman that is a tiny part, but how does the story affect her? What can I play in the end that’s different from the beginning? Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense, because it’s just like being a prop.

I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.

Everyone has the gift of laughter inside of them. All the world is a prop.

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

June Cleaver didn't keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it.

Most gyms now have TVs. You can prop up reading material on the cardio equipment.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

Nothing creative functions well when fenced in or leaning on a prop. A contract is a fence and a prop.

The personality must be bigger than the prop.

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.

Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.

I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.