Vivien Leigh Quotes
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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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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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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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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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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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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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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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
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Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.
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I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.
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To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.
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We had no difficulty whatsoever in raising a great deal of money in those days. The sum paled by comparison with the current fund requirement.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
