David Ansen Quotes
Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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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 like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.
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Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.
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I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
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I'm very fortunate to have been raised in my family. I learned early about the importance of giving back.
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I've never really fit in anywhere.
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Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'
