Champ Bailey Quotes
I wasn't showboating. I just ran out of gas. I've got to give Ben Watson a lot of credit for not giving up and sticking with it and making that play.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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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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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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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 once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.
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I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
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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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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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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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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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I have been gigging around Glasgow and Edinburgh since I was 12. I played in pubs at that age, even though I obviously was too young to be in them. So I used to hide in bathrooms, come out and play my set, then get the hell out as quickly as possible.
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That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.
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As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.
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I wasn't showboating. I just ran out of gas. I've got to give Ben Watson a lot of credit for not giving up and sticking with it and making that play.
