Jesse Livermore Quotes
It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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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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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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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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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
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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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Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.
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'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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Center is a very tough position to play.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
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If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.
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I realized that being an actor was something I never owned up to, in a weird way. I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I would consider myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough.
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Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play.
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If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.
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It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.
