John Astin Quotes
I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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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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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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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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The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
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There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.
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Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
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You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'
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I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.
