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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One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.
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It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.
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It was in the back of my mind, even while I was going to school, but it wasn't until I was at university studying engineering that I thought, well what do I really want to do? And I kind of came back to that and I said, well the degrees I'm trying to get are going to qualify me to apply. And so, that's what I did after I finished my, or after I was getting my doctorates. That's when I first applied to NASA.
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Gold were as good as twenty orators.
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I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.
