Jimmy Fallon Quotes

Like behind the car or in the pub, to do a scene, a proper nice dramatic scene, it's always a treat. And they're usually shot as one, so you've got a big chunk of dialogue to learn, and you feel like you're working.

You never get fans hanging out on movie sets. It just never happens.

It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India.

Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it's an actor putting in a performance. Someone said 'cut' and they're back in their trailer having a coffee or getting their hair done.

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.

But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.

I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lot of material is shot in a day. Big budget movies are luxurious in terms of the schedule. Independent films often shoot fast as well.

It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.

I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in.

The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot 'Mr. and Mrs. Bridge' in Kansas City.

As an actor, you see a sliver of how the show is made, but to see the actual writing process and the re-writing process and the casting process and art direction and set design - all of this is happening in a very intense period.

When you're a TV star, you pretty much set the tone, and on 'Police Woman,' we goofed around all the time.

It's one thing to plan and imagine what you want on a film, but when you actually arrive and survey the scene, there's a moment of, 'Oh my God, what was I thinking?'

I had a really fantastic time shooting 'Bad Teacher.' I loved every second of it.

Compared to film or television, theater is more interactive, collaborative.

There's something very surreal about driving a truck, looking in the rearview mirror, and seeing 20 cop cars behind you. Even though you know, 'We're just shooting. This is just a scene; we're making a movie here,' it's very unsettling.

Usually, on a show like 'Game of Thrones,' you don't have much time to rehearse; a lot of the sets are not available.

I've wrestled in front of great crowds in Montreal, and I've wrestled absolutely terrible crowds where you're in front of, like, 200 people.

We will get back to the earlier, instinctive and less inhibited nature of theatre. Today, spectators are passive, but Elizabethan, Greek and Roma; theatre was interactive.

The Apollo seats 3,600 people: I could hear them making a huge noise for Milton Jones and Lee Mack. If the audience doesn't make the same amount of noise for you, you feel like you've failed.

At Sale we're an up and coming club, wanting to draw bigger crowds. You can't just run everything, though, you need a balance.

You're in there, you're having a match, and you're feeding off that crowd. That's the gasoline that fuels the match, and that's how you make your decisions. If you're not listening to that crowd when you're working, you're missing the biggest part of what working is all about.