Carrie Preston Quotes
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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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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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 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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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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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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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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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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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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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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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
I've always refused to play terrorists.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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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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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
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I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.
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I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
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I really like to play these complicated characters, and I really like to transform.
