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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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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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 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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I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!
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I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
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I didn't have any friends. I was bullied. I didn't play sports.
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If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.
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It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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It's either put up or shut up now. I hope guys aren't giving up.
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I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.
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It can be difficult to mediate a compromise between what I have in my head and what the musician has in mind, which is often 180° different when it comes to the finished product, so it requires that element of trust from somewhere. The point I make to them is "You've seen what I do, so just trust me and we will come up with something exciting."
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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.
