Mike Figgis Quotes
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.
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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 think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.
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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
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When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.
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If I could read it, I could play it.
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My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
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Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.
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Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal, are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out laughing.
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As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.
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I think it’s important for me to play well and set the tone.
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Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.
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This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.
