Silas Weir Mitchell Quotes
I play outsiders. That's just the way it's gone for me, and I think that's fantastic. I like it because I've always been interested in how the other guy thinks. I want to know what's going on in his head.
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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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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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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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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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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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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 have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
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For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
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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'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.
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I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
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I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.
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I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.
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Keep your head up and be patient.
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Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
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What it is now is basically I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac.
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I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.
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During the season I really don't do anything else but play baseball. I've never wanted to get away from baseball for a break. Why would I want to get away from it? I love the game. I always have. There's nothing else I'd rather do.
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You live to play in the playoffs. It's like your heart is ripped out.
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Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.
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We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.
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Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.
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I play outsiders. That's just the way it's gone for me, and I think that's fantastic. I like it because I've always been interested in how the other guy thinks. I want to know what's going on in his head.
