Dana Ashbrook Quotes
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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 -
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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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love.
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I really enjoyed working on the 2009 film, 'Aliens in the Attic,' because it was shot in New Zealand and I got to visit there for the first time.
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You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.
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I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
