Quotes About Extras

#1. The thing about that too is that we had the same extras everyday. It was such a community. It was like a microcosmic little town. We were like all little towns people with extras and a crew.

Erika Christensen

#2. Obviously in the close-ups we bring extras around or we do it later, but them running in and the big shots, they don't know. They're just coming out.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#3. Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

Ellen Muth

#4. It's strange how extras have become such a big part of the business. I don't know what I think of it. I mean, some of them are great, most of them are filler.

John Landis

#5. Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword.

David Carradine

#6. I was watching TV one day, and there was this open casting call for extras, and my brother says, 'You wanna try out for this movie?' and I said, 'No, I'm okay.' And then he said, 'Do you wanna be on a DVD?' And I said, 'I wanna be on a DVD!,' so I tried out.

CJ Adams

#7. My pitching in 'Dazed and Confused' was so bad that they had to use cut-ins with a stunt double, and I spent most of that filming night being ruthlessly mocked by a team of Little League extras.

Wiley Wiggins

#8. I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college - which was called 'Extras' - I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film.

Mike Birbiglia

#9. Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

Yann Martel

#10. You see man we are just fucking extras!! Extras in a capitalist blockbuster!~page 75

Winshluss

#11. I don't like DVD extras. No. Especially when they do things like put out alternative endings? I find all of that a little bizarre, because there should only be one ending. I don't like to be told, 'Oh, we could have had it this way,' for the director's cut.

Aidan Gillen

#12. The whole world had become a stage, in which the props were continually shifting, four extras reprising the roles of twenty-four characters and people I'd never seen before playing my most beloved ones.

Chris Campanioni

#13. This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.

Dana Carvey

#14. Some of my favorite shows are Ricky Gervais' 'Extras' and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'

Brian Dunkleman

#15. We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

David Neeleman

#16. I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

Rebel Wilson

#17. Everything has happened so fast for me that I sometimes can't take it all in. I'm a huge 'Friends' fan, and meeting Matthew Perry in L.A., where he was as keen to talk to me about 'Extras' as I was to him about 'Friends,' was amazing.

Ashley Jensen

#18. Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.

Adam McKay

#19. She has stepped out into a different night, a different town altogether, one of those first-person-shooter towns that you can drive around in seemingly forever, but never away from. The only humanity visible are virtual extras in the distance, none offering any of the help she needs.

Thomas Pynchon

#20. I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by.

James D'arcy

#21. The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.

Barack Obama

#22. This was too much for him to handle. It was like watching memories of his life play out from a different camera angle, sometimes with new scenes added. He was living DVD extras.

Dennis Sharpe

#23. I love just seeing shots of New York inside of a fictional movie that are not controlled. I do not like shots with extras, I have to say. I don't mind extras in other scenes, but I love New York City streets just as they look. I don't even care if someone looks at the camera. It doesn't bother me.

Greta Gerwig

#24. But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.

John Sayles

#25. Usually, the extras have a different mentality. I had the mentality of an artist, because I was a 'ballet-rina.' But most extras are out to make a fast buck for nothing. They're 'atmosphere.'

Teri Garr

#26. When you're working on a huge, elaborate set that took months to create, and you're surrounded by hundreds of extras, you better remember your lines and know what you're doing in a scene!

Kenneth Choi

#27. You don't always need all of the bells and the whistles. I learned in my life, throughout my journey, that I'm enough. I don't need all of the extras. I just live my truth, and as long as I do that, I feel like I'll be good in whatever circumstance.

V. Bozeman

#28. I get a headache when films are too filled up with people. And I don't understand what's going on if there are too many extras walking around. This film was very comfortable for me, I want to see just the actors. This is how I can concentrate.

Eran Kolirin

#29. Extra' was a very American word. Americans seemed to have extras of everything.

Minfong Ho

#30. The difference between extras and audience members is that audience members don't get chairs. Audience members are the daylaborers of the industry. When it's sunny, we stand in the sun. When it's cold, we stand in the cold.

J. Richard Singleton

#31. There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more?'. He is asking 'Do you love me?' Some of those extras are not always as vital as we think them to be.

Christopher Ash

#32. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven.

Dolly Wells

#33. Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

William Shatner

#34. We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

Julianne Moore

#35. My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model ...

Henri Matisse

#36. I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.

Larry Bishop

#37. With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.

Ricky Gervais

#38. Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.

Charles Dickens

#39. 'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

A. J. Cook

#40. It didn't scare him the way he had thought it would. There was still the unshakable, blind assurances that this organism Ray Garraty could not die. The others could die, they were extras in the movie of his life, but not Ray Garraty, star of that long-running hit film, The Ray Garraty Story.

Stephen King

#41. God makes us with the exact ingredients we need for life. Unfortunately we spoil the mix by throwing in extras that damage the final outcome. God takes the rest of our lives trying to heal and restore us back to His perfect cake mix.

Margaret Kazmierczak

#42. The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

Aaron Neville

#43. Our challenge with "The Office" and "Extras" was to get it completely scripted but to find a cast that could make it look like they were saying it for the first time.

Ricky Gervais

#44. None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.

Quentin Tarantino

#45. Somewhere along the way, the gospel had gotten buried under a massive pile of extras: political positions, lifestyle requirements, and unspoken rules that for whatever reason came with the Christian territory. Sometimes Jesus himself seemed buried beneath the rubble.

Rachel Held Evans

#46. Two days before I got the audition for 'Extras,' I was offered a theatre role, and I asked my husband, Terry, whether I should take it or not. He said, 'No, wait and see what else comes in.' Lo and behold, along came 'Extras.' Now that was lucky!

Ashley Jensen

#47. I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.

Jean Dujardin

#48. If you play men, in a way it's easier. You can have a voicebox, you can have false hair, mustaches, wigs, you can have all kinds of stuff. But when you're playing women playing men, you only really have yourself to work with, plus tiny little extras.

Janet McTeer

#49. Extras, in case you want to send some." "Irma," M.J. said. "Who am I going to write a postcard to? You're the

Stephanie Kallos

#50. His place was not honored, as the true opener of the way; he was only another of the ten thousand cheering extras, a doggy rolling over and sitting up on command.

Stephen King

#51. Most people are extras in their own movie.

Bob Proctor

#52. At his campaign launch, Donald Trump apparently paid extras $50 to cheer for him at the rally. Trump said, 'Usually when I pay a person to like me, it's my wife.'

Conan O'Brien

#53. I'm one of those weird people that tends to not do the extras and listen to the commentaries and stuff on movies, although I do think they are fascinating and interesting - I'm just so worried that years later I wouldn't remember anything!

Richard Thomas

#54. The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.

Berenice Bejo

#55. I'm here, and every day now is an extra day. I've been given an extra day so I've got to make the most of it.

George Lucas

#56. The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

N. T. Wright

#57. When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury.

Patrick Wilson

#58. All I'm doing now is extra. I've already did what I am going to do in my career.

Manny Ramirez

#59. I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.

Bo Derek

#60. That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.

Gregory Maguire

#61. I've got extra motivation that I won't talk about right now.

LeBron James

#62. You get so much out of the extra effort that you put into looking your best.

Dania Ramirez

#63. DONT DECLARE HOLIDAY ON MY DEATH, INSTEAD WORK AN EXTRA DAY, IF U LOVE ME

Abdul Kalam

#64. I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

#65. Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Robert Henri

#66. By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me.

Andrew Schneider

#67. Run and hide. We're on our way.

Scott Westerfeld

#68. Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle.

Orson Welles

#69. Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.

Richard Hofstadter

#70. It only takes one extra something! To get you to where you trying to get to!

Eric Thomas

#71. Over deliver in all you do and soon you will be rewarded for the extra effort.

Zig Ziglar

#72. If you are the best, you must go that extra mile.

Conor McGregor

#73. I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.

Patti LaBelle

#74. You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

Faye Dunaway

#75. I got an extra hour's nap.

Bobby Jones

#76. Living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#77. God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!

C.S. Lewis

#78. Because we're extraordinary, not for the thinhs we do but for who we are.

Krista Ritchie

#79. I'll have an awesome blossom, EXTRA awesome.

Michael Scott

#80. I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.

Fran Lebowitz

#81. I don't have to work extra hard, but that's because there are a lot of women in my professional network and I have hired a lot of women as full-time writers and part-time columnists.

Ann Friedman

#82. You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.

Sophia Loren