Miranda Leek Quotes
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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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 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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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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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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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.
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I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
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You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.
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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined.
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I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.
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My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.
