Richard Pryor Quotes
I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.
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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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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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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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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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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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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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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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The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
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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 am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.
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My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.
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I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
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My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
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I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs.
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A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.
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I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.
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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
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Bile is not ONLY the real key to the body’s ability to digest and assimilate fats, but it is also a vehicle for removing toxins from your body so they can be flushed out through the colon.
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I have to lead my party from the front. I love meeting people and this happens only during elections.
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I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.
