Barry Lane 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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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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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 had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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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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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
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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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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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I love to play music.
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.
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I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.
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My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.
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Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.
