Trailers Quotes

You might be a redneck if your local ambulance has a trailer hitch.

The first day, in particular, is always one of those weird days because you get …, you’re thrown into this new trailer – here’s your wardrobe.

I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do make money by just having my songs in the background of television shows or in commercials or movie trailers. That’s been really good.

I’m a trailer junkie. I love watching movie trailers as soon as they go up.

I always get everyone prepared so there aren’t so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we’re shooting that day. It’s time-consuming, but it reduces the chances of ‘misunderstandings’ on set.

When they took me to do the camera test for the vampire make up, after they put the prosthetic on, I went though the entire process, I went back to my trailer and I looked in the mirror and I smiled.

When you’re actor, you have no idea how much work goes into pre-production. We’re just sitting in our trailers waiting for someone to knock on our door to go to the set.

I don’t know why I just remembered this, and I haven’t told anybody this, but we were shooting in Canyon de Chelly and we were so far up the canyon. Once we were up there, we were up there. There was no going back to your trailers.

The excitement really didn’t start to build until the trailer – which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff – pulled up to the launch pad.

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

I don’t want to make videos that come out looking like commercials or movie trailers.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up.

That stupid saying “What you don’t know can’t hurt you” is ridiculous. What you don’t know can kill you. If you don’t know that tractor trailer trucks hurt when hitting you, then you can play in the middle of the interstate with no fear – but that doesn’t mean you won’t get killed.

Like every other rich asshole, I have a cook and he’s in my trailer making food all the time.

I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn’t have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.

There were a lot of fan-made trailers for ‘The Originals.’ The fans sort of decided it could be a show before anyone else did.

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I’m used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

In Hollywood, I’m lucky, I only do big movies like ‘Blade.’ It’s much more comfortable: you have a trailer.

Actually I want to scare away method actors because it’s a pain. It’s like, ‘Come on, what are you doing? It’s not real. What are you doing? Oh, you’re really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I’ll see you in an hour.’

I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I was safely out of their sight. Then I ducked into the cotton and waited for friendly voices. I sat on the hot ground, surrounded by stalks four feet tall, and I cried, something I really hated to do.

Nobody could disappear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.

Limp Bizkit is my main priority, but my side project, Black Light Burns, is still a labor of love. We have a record written, so we’ll see when that comes out. When we tour, we go out in a van and trailer with me driving.

I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing.

There’s this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer’s here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you’re not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

I’m just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It’s an edited version that takes so many moments of the movie, sometimes it’s not even in the movie. The director does the movie. So don’t judge the director based on the trailer. Please.

First of all, weren’t all the best beatings in the trailer for ‘The Passion of the Christ’? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff.

There’s the difference between hardcore motorcycle riders and people who own motorcycles. Some people ride’em and some people trailer’em.

Think about trailers you see in theaters. If you’re seeing a Warner Bros film, the studio might have three of the five trailers. So having a hit helps you create the next hit.

I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I’ll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.

I find making trailers really frustrating, because sometimes the worst trailers are for the best movies.

All of which is mostly bullshit. The reality is that it’s just like any other Ponzi scheme: the guys at the top are doing pretty well, but the guys on the bottom are doing Amway pitches in trailer parks.

He looked like those paintings of baby angels – what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That’s it. He looked like a cherub who’d turned middle-aged in a trailer park.

Your imagination is the movie trailer for your future, so nurture it always.В  Logic will get you to the next level, but only imagination will take you to the level you really want to find.

You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

I don’t watch movie trailers. I just go to the movie, and I don’t know anything about it, because that’s the only way I appreciate the movie fully.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don’t always feel as if you’re nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That’s the first thing I do when I leave the set.

By year three, you get nicer, bigger trailers.

In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

Back in the days, we had to work with a shoestring budget. We had a movie screen, and we’d show movie trailers on them, and then we’d rip through it and started playing. Now we have a little money to play with to do a cool stage set.

It’s always strange being a kid on the set, because you’re treated like an equal when you’re working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.

I never have goals or dreams. My sister says it’s pathetic and lazy, but I had a goal, to tell jokes to pay bills and not have to live in a trailer. So, I think I’m living my fantasy. I don’t have another.

If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer.

I met a woman in Albuquerque and she came and hung out with me in the trailer. It was really just more to kind of really understand my biggest concern was always the interrogation scenes. Remember, that’s why I really wanted to meet somebody because you see those scenes on TV so much.

A lot of times the best trailers are for complete dogshit movies. It’s a shame that people are beyond quick to judge things these days. Lots of great stuff gets lost that way.

I own four copies of Robin WIlliams’s Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents’ house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!

Don’t spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.

I always use the Internet. It’s a great marketing tool. It’s a great starting point, allowing you to show your trailer and have people all over world be able to see it. It was much harder in the old days.

I don’t watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.

I had a friend who got pregnant at age 14 and wasn’t quite sure who the father was.
Her paternity test went a little something like this: “If it comes out black, its Darwin’s and if it comes out white its Ray’s.”
This is how things were done in the trailer park.

It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying ‘oh it’s a female character’ and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement.

Actors are not a great breed of people, I don’t think. I count myself as something of an exception. I grew up in the theater, and my values were about the work, and not being a star or anything like that. I’m not spoiled in that way, and if I fight for something, it’s about the work, not about how big my trailer is.

I’ve worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you’re in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You’re taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.

With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They’re pretty grounded; it wasn’t until they saw the trailer for ‘Battleship’ that they were like, ‘Ooh, this is a big movie, isn’t it?

No money has ever been spent on ‘Peaky Blinders’ in terms of publicity, there’s no massive campaign – because it’s the BBC you just get the trailers. But what’s happened is people have found it for themselves and I think the loyalty is greater when people find than when they’re told to watch something.

If people don’t like the trailer, then blame it on the people who made the trailer.

And I used to say, ‘I’m black, too.’ In other words, I – my whole life I’ve been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.

I’m a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a show like ‘Supernatural,’ which can be so dark, it’s fun to get up there and laugh and remember we’re only telling a story. Seeing Eric Kripke and Ben Edlund up there being so funny always makes me laugh.

I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.

When I’m working, it’s those actors (you know who you are) who sit around moaning that their trailer isn’t big enough, or how bad their facilities are. I can’t be doing with any of that, I just like to get on with it.

If you’re not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer.

The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.

And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

I think it actually makes more sense for a new audience than the old show did because we’re focusing on one character at a time. It’s all conjecture why somebody didn’t watch, but one of the theories was that there was just so much information, even in the trailers and promos, of all these different people.

The faxes went out from the producers and the director to my agents to my manager to call me and ask me to lose weight. I just remember sitting in my trailer hysterically crying from the embarrassment I felt about myself, my body – and that no one could talk to me directly.

When I write a film, I have already made the trailer

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence – then you’re told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

I basically camped out for a year and a half in an Airstream trailer on the beach out in front of the studio. I had no idea what I was gonna do, what kind of album I was gonna make – all I knew was that I wanted to sit there and just take in whatever came.

One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second Lord of the Rings film and having Gandalf in it. Why? He died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell 1000 more seats? It’s daft.

We don’t really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.

Dishonesty in trailers is more than a moral issue, it’s a practical one. If you don’t deliver in the film what you offered in the trailer, you’ll get bad word-of-mouth.

From my own internal fanboy perspective, there’s nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it’s shown me the entire movie.

I couldn’t care less about actors’ trailers and food on sets and stuff like that – I just want to act.

That’s a battle we are always fighting whenever we cut trailers or promos for films. We always wonder how much to say, and every filmmaker wants to say the minimum. You don’t want to reveal your film and ruin the viewing experience.

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.

I just thank God I don’t live in a trailer.

I think I had the most fun making a movie with ‘Dedication,’ just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.

I’m happier than a tornado in a trailer park.

It’s an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.

Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you’re not sure if it’s a video game or a movie. You have to wait till the end of it to see, oh, I see, those actors are in it, so that one’s a movie. Oftentimes, it’s based on a video game.

I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you have these trailers that have these little ovens and kitchenettes. A lot of actors never use them, but I would cook lunch just about every day.

I always get everyone prepared so there aren’t so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we’re shooting that day. It’s time-consuming but it reduces the chances of ‘misunderstandings’ on set.

I’m just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.

It was a difficult but wonderful balance to go from big budget, big craziness, everyone’s giant trailers, everyone’s sushi lunches, to a $4 million movie.

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you’ve prepared for two months.

It was really fun being in Tara’s trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She’s so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.

It’s always strange being a kid on the set, because you’re treated like an equal when you’re working. But then when you break, the
other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.

I felt like I already knew how to race by the time I was four. I was always at the race track with my dad. I watched him race thousands of laps in a sprint car standing on top of a trailer watching him, getting down and cleaning the mud off his car. That’s just what I grew up doing.

I don’t need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don’t work that way.

I’m gonna design my own fleet of trailers. No! I’m gonna record an album like Jennifer Lopez. It’ll be an acoustic version of K.C. and the Sunshine Band. Then maybe I’ll design a line of clothes like Puff Daddy, but all in synthetic fur.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, ‘I’m going back to my trailer, my trailer’s bigger than your trailer,’ that kind of Hollywood nonsense.

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‘If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.’ But if it’s open and you’re walkin’ by, feel free to say, ‘Hello.’

We had a tiny budget for ‘The Greatest,’ which was the opposite of ‘Wall Street.’ We just kind of went in and did it. You’ve got four or five takes and then you’ve got to move on. We didn’t even have trailers to stay in or anything.

The entire time I was up shooting ‘Suits,’ I was running back to my trailer to help get ‘Nine Circles’ produced. It’s a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

With my schedule, I don’t have much time to get to yoga classes, but I do keep a mat in my trailer and practice for a few minutes most days. It keeps me centered.

In my trailer, I work out with free weights and do situps and push-ups. I’m just trying to stay lean and active looking.

I admire actors for their infinite patience. That’s why they need all those trailers and all their crowd of people who pamper them. But it is a drag to get up sometimes at 4:30 in the morning and get into makeup, and wait forever until they call you onto the set.

I have five kids from three marriages. I come from a trailer park. My sister and brother are both gay. I have multiple personalities.

Working on ‘Raising Hope’ is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don’t just want that time to dissolve, where I’m sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.

I’ve seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.

I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Early on in my career, I’d go into the makeup trailer, and they’d spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I’d go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.

I’m a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can’t eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that’s no good. I can’t believe I’m saying this.

Oh Jesse, paint you pictures, ’bout how it’s gonna be.
By now I should know better, your dreams are never free.
But tell me all about, our little trailer by the sea.
Oh Jesse, you can always sell any dream to me.

The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.