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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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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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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I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.
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Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.
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No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.
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I try to work on all aspects of my game, whether it be run, pass. I think you can never stop growing, and I definitely take that mindset. You've just got to keep on grinding.
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The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.
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Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For an American playwright to say it doesn't matter is simply to capitulate to the current situation.
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Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'
