Dana Ashbrook Quotes
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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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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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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
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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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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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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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My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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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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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
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I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not, our shows are very physical. Sports is a very physical thing, too.
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I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.
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The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. It is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.
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If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
