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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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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As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.
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It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.
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But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
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I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don't want me around much.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.
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How sweet war is to such as know it not.
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I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.
