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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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
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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 dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.
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I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.
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Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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Couldst thou in vision see, thyself the man God meant, thou never then could be, the man thou art content.
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I really like to play these complicated characters, and I really like to transform.
