Top 203 Props Quotes & Sayings

We're living in an era where the audience are welcoming content-driven stories, and not just asking to see actresses as glam props.

The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.

Choose your props wisely.

You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.

In our home we have many movie props from old film productions.

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.

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

Props is a true thug's wife.

Many in the Somali community are excited to vote and support candidates who have shown an ability to lead with integrity and not use props and gatekeepers to get their votes.

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.

I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle, Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble.

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.

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.

Skills rest in your mind not in the props you make use of.

We have grown up watching women be used as props on a man's journey. It's not our fault that that's what we saw as children. But we need to acknowledge that and do better.

What props up biological research, at least in the vaunted U.S. of A., involves a situation so deeply imbued with entitlement mentality that it has sunk into institutional corruption.

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.

I find my movie props in my neighbors houses.

The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.

They say you get nauseous in a green screen room, but I haven't yet. It's a little odd playing pretend with props and monitors that we're supposed to be watching, but I'll get used to it.

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke. 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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

Now, everyone has their talents, but working with props is not one of mine.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

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.

That's what my wardrobe room looks like. It's all costumes and props. It's ridiculous.

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

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.

I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me.

The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

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.

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.

I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.

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.

Remember, your not your props, create the magic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Promoting a stock is like making a movie. You've got to have stars, props, and a good script.

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.

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.

Writing is the thing that props me up.

'Mad Fashion' follows the everyday workings of me and my workshop, where we make fashion, costumes, props, and couture!

I've never taken an acting lesson in my life, and it's not my chosen profession, so I'm flattered when people say I can do it and give me props for doing it.

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.

I think there needs to be more care taken for the actor. You know, we are not props!

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.

I remember getting in the elevator for my audition and there was a guy next to me who had a backpack full of props and wigs and things, and I went, 'Oh, my God, that guy is so prepared, I have nothing, I have no props.' And that was Andy Samberg. And Andy Samberg said he was looking at me going, 'Oh, that guy has no props. He doesn't need props.' And that was the first time we met, was in that elevator.

Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.

You gotta give props to Ozzy as the creator of all evil faces. What would we do in photo sessions if it were not for Ozzy?

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.

I've got to give props to my dad. He got me into the UFC and the MMA scene to begin with.