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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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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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 knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
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I wanted to know how Jackie felt about [John F. Kennedy], and I got to know Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. Bunny and her were buddies. I asked, "How do you know what Jackie knew?" And Bunny said, "She told me."... Jackie called him "Magic." Bunny said she just picked her man. That was it. This was the guy she loved.
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It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.
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I know that timid breathing. Where Do I begin and end? And where, As I strum the thing, do I pick up That which momentously declares Itself not to be I and yet Must be. It could be nothing else.
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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.
