Mike Figgis Quotes
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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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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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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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 -
I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
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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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I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.
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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
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I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.
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You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.
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The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
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I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.
