Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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What position didn't I play last season?
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To overextend yourself is to invite defeat.
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I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.
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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
