John Astin Quotes
I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.
Quotes to Explore
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Study first, play afterwards.
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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 have no special strategy. I can just wait to see what my opponent offers.
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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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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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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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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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I know that I have a special stomach.
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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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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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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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Center is a very tough position to play.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.
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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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New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.
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My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.
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When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.
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I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
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I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.
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I love funk and soul and Motown.
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I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.
