Barbara Hale Quotes

I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!'

I was the one who kept telling my second husband he should become a cinematographer. I paid for him to get his director's card, and he went on to make 'Godspell.'

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.

I'm a walk-on guy. When the director says, 'Action,' I'm on.

'I Was There Too' talks to people who played non-starring roles in big movies. That means the likes of comedian Jimmy Pardo, who didn't make it to the finished 'Dreamgirls.' Still, he recalls that when an actor is put on hold for a movie, he gets paid for two weeks just for sitting at home waiting to be called.

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background.

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.

My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.

When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately tried to get a job working on that film, and I couldn't. So my first job as a PA was on a CBS movie of the week that was shooting next door, and whenever I could, I would sneak over so I could watch.

I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker.

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pesci' on the set.

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.

I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

You can't direct without a good crew.

While filming 'Annie Hall,' I never really hung out with Woody Allen.

On my first movie, there were three women: the body-makeup girl, the hairdresser, and the secretary of the producer.

As a DP who mostly does features, I'm normally in a director's pocket, 24/7.

I had the time of my life playing Rose in Wes Craven's 'The Girl in the Photographs.' I became so close with the cast and crew, it was hard to leave after we wrapped.

Whenever you're working on a film or TV set, the hours are very, very long.