Tom Cruise Quotes
What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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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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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
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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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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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I love to play music.
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I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
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My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.
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I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
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My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.
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I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.
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Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
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Some places you play in America, it's like 'On the Waterfront.'
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I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself.
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America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.
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What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
