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.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Dream
  • Black
  • Me

• 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.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Play
  • Quality
  • Pitching

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
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  • Imagination
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• I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

  

  Carla Gallo
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  • Director

• 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.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
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  • Enough

• 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.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Alone
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  • Player

• 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.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • People
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  • Guitar

• 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.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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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?

  

  Earl Weaver
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  • Losing

• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • World
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• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
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• Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
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• My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

  

  Harold Pinter
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• I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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• My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'

  

  Zendaya
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  • Witches

• 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.

  

  J Mascis
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  • Old
  • Three

• 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.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Decision

• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

  

  E. B. White
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  • Fall
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• A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

  

  Brian Tracy
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  • Persons

• I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.

  

  Cat Power
  • Persons
  • Pay
  • Becoming

• I knew I'd get an opportunity, and it's up to me to make the most of it whether I got drafted or not. If you can play, you'll get to play, regardless of that.

  

  Jordan Rodgers
  • Opportunity
  • Play
  • Drafted

• I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
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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.

  

  Richard Pryor
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