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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Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game
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If I was involved with the NFL, I'd seriously consider adopting some of the rules used in Canada. I've heard, unofficially, of course, some NFL club owners have talked about adding a feature or two. The NFL went for the two-point conversion. Professional sport is entertainment, and the CFL, I believe, is ahead of the NFL in that regard.
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The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.
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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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It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.
