Ben Rector Quotes
Recording can be enjoyable, but the hard thing is that you don't get any direct or immediate feedback like you do when you play live. Getting to see people's excitement and see them engage in the show makes me excited to get back out and play.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.
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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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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 prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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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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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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I wrote my first play when I was eight.
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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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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
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Recording can be enjoyable, but the hard thing is that you don't get any direct or immediate feedback like you do when you play live. Getting to see people's excitement and see them engage in the show makes me excited to get back out and play.
