Play Quotes - Page 40

• I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

  Joe Cocker

  Thinking, Able, Instruments

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• I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

  Peter Capaldi

  Hate, Meals, Quiet

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• I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare, and maybe knock out a play or two. It's all about keeping balance.

  Thomas Ian Griffith

  Art, Two, Balance

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.

  Nick Offerman

  School, Years, Careers

  "Nick Offerman Of ‘Parks And Recreation’ On Ron Swanson, The Cubs And, Duh, Facial Hair". Interview with Joseph Erbentraut, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I would like to do any way possible that Howard Stark can make a return. He's such a fun character to play, and I really believe that he could make quite an exciting character to watch more of. The flawed entrepreneur, the kind of crazy playboy, from that era is an exciting concept.

  Dominic Cooper

  Fun, Crazy, Believe

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• By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.

  Carrie Preston

  Yards, Twelve, Back When

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.

  Ben Whishaw

  Character, Opportunity

  "Interview: Actor Ben Whishaw on 'Cloud Atlas' + Playing Q in 'Skyfall'". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. October 31, 2012.

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• I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears...

  Rachel Hurd-Wood

  Nice, Fake, Tears

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.

  Michael Cera

  Wall, Character, Sleep

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• It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.

  Ed Helms

  Fun, Amplify, Littles

  "At The Office with Ed Helms". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. August 21, 2007.

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• It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

  Diane Kruger

  Taken, Long, Interesting

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• I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.

  Juliet Landau

  Fun, Parent, Dolls

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Awards, Actors, Meaningless

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• From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.

  Wallace Shawn

  Jobs, Giving, Actors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

  Wallace Shawn

  Strange, Has Beens

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• "The Fever" is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

  Wallace Shawn

  Character, Fever, Theater

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  Wallace Shawn

  New York, Writing, Acting

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

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• When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.

  Wallace Shawn

  Beautiful, People, Portraits

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Ideas, Firsts

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, February 1, 2011.

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• I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Girl

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• I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Character, Different, Want

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• Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

  Laura Carmichael

  Scripts, Film, States

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• I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.

  Tristan MacManus

  Football, Morning, Games

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• Im always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. Thats how I roll.

  Ariel Winter

  Character, Trying, Lines

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• My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'

  Michael Strahan

  Football, Goal, Generations

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