Erika Slezak Quotes
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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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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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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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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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
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Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria, in a way, I think. That music!
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
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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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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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It feels that way when I'm doing a play, absolutely. On film and television, it's more complicated than that I think, and when you start to add the business into the mix, and the industry into the mix, it doesn't maintain it's purity. That's something that's inevitable and unavoidable, but that's why I try to do plays as much as I possibly can.
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I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.
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Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
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If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.
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Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace.
