Play Quotes - Page 19

• I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Defense, Monkeys

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• Do we play Chicago again? I going to hit Othella Harrington right in the mouth. If he didn't have his clumsy ass on the floor, I wouldn't have fell. How he got on the ground, I don't know. He's clumsy. Quote me on that. I'm going to get him.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, Chicago

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• He can play. He can shoot. He can dribble. He can pass. He's a great player. Period. No question about it. And if anyone thinks Dirk is not a great player, I'll punch them in their face.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

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• It's over now. He said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. Don't play with me. Seriously, don't play with me.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, Said

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• I'm pretty much able to play any style. I'm not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, Style

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• I'm just naturally gravitating towards different things. As you mature, different subject matters. And as you're older, you can't play as many parts, or you shouldn't be playing the parts that you used to play. But also there's the opportunity to play parts that you couldn't have.

  Clint Eastwood

  Opportunity, Different, Matter

  "Letters From Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I've gotten to play some pretty intense characters and I tend to think it's therapeutic for me.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Thinking, Intense

  "Inception - Leonardo DiCaprio interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way.

  Hugh Jackman

  Thinking, Years, Actors

  "Hugh Jackman Talks Reuniting with Bryan Singer, Battling Sentinels, How Long He’ll Play Wolverine, and More on the Set of X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 19, 2014.

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• Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that you get to play some roles you'd never get to play otherwise, you know, like the old Italian pizza-maker who's passing on the business down to his son. You get to play it all when you improvise.

  Amy Poehler

  Son, Italian, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a kid is play football and if I wasn't at a club I'd be playing with my mates on a Sunday. I still come home and play five-a-side with my mates.

  Kevin Kilbane

  Football, Kids, Home

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I always tend to like the characters that I play. I'm convinced that I am this person and I'm OK with whatever they do.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Character, Persons, Convinced

  "Mark Wahlberg Talks THE GAMBLER, Shedding Sixty Pounds For The Role, THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN, DEEPWATER HORIZON, and More". Interview, collider.com. December 23, 2014.

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• I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

  Steve Earle

  New York, People, Actors

  "Steve Earle discusses his Sirius XM show, 'The Wire,' and punching Edward Norton". Interview with Beth Johnson, ew.com. June 12, 2009.

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• You have a great road map when you play somebody that exists. That's the amazing thing. But then you have great limitations from that road map. It's hard to deviate from it creatively as an actor. It's like, "Oh wait, he'd never do that."

  Jeremy Renner

  Waiting, Actors, Maps

  Source: collider.com

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• It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.

  Howard Charles

  Nice, Character, Race

  "Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, and Howard Charles Talk THE MUSKETEERS, Character Backstory, Favorite Action Sequences, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 21, 2014.

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• The action stuff takes a long time but when you're there and you're doing it and you go into that take and you run and everything is blowing up around you and you're diving onto something it's actually incredibly thrilling and you feel like a kid again. Like a kid, who used to play and pretend all those things would happen and now they're actually happening.

  Stanley Tucci

  Running, Kids, Long

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• A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number of actors who had played Richard III in the past. And I was hoping of course, that one of them or all of them were gonna give me the magic key, the secret way in to play Richard III but none of them did that.But every one of them did say the following, "Be careful."

  Kevin Spacey

  Couple, Past, Keys

  Source: collider.com

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• People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.

  Kevin Spacey

  Eight, Games, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

  Kevin Costner

  Sports, Player, Mad

  "Kevin Costner Talks DRAFT DAY, His Career, What We Can Learn from the Movies, How GIANT Influenced His Outlook on Life, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 7, 2014.

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• Some people come to you because if you're in their movie, it'll help them raise money. And some people come to you because they think you're the person to play the part.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, People, Helping

  "Kevin Costner Talks DRAFT DAY, His Career, What We Can Learn from the Movies, How GIANT Influenced His Outlook on Life, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 7, 2014.

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• No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Country, Couple, Artist

  "Harry Connick Jr. Talks DOLPHIN TALE 2, Balancing His Music and Movie Career, AMERICAN IDOL and His New Album". collider.com. September 14, 2014.

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• I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in those terrible times. [...] I'll get to wear a uniform.

  Ben Kingsley

  Men, Choices, Battle

  "Sir Ben Kingsley Talks THE BOXTROLLS, His Career, Voicing Bagheera in THE JUNGLE BOOK, The Mandarin, EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS, and More at Comic-Con". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

  Stanley Tucci

  Character, People, Matter

  "Alice Eve and Stanley Tucci Talk SOME VELVET MORNING, Making a Movie in One Space with Two Actors, 1:30 TRAIN, CATCHING FIRE and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. December 12, 2013.

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• I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a desire to play and write songs. I've never wanted to be a career musician. But I still love to play and write. It's a big part of who I am.

  John Congleton

  Song, Writing, Who I Am

  "John Congleton: Meet Indie Rock's Unsung Hero Of 2011". Interview with Mike Katzif, www.npr.org. December 23, 2011.

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• It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

  Jack White

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.

  Octavia Spencer

  Fun, Character, Who I Am

  Source: collider.com

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