Colin Callender Quotes
I had read the scripts that Nora Ephron had written as a movie about Mike McAlary. We were never able to make it at HBO because we couldn't cast it properly and when I left I called Nora and said, "Look, I actually think that the movie luckyguyindustry has changed. It's very unlikely that you'd be able to make this as a movie. I actually think it's a play."
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.
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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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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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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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Center is a very tough position to play.
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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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When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
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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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I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
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Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
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Politics swings like a pendulum.
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I grew up riding horses and on the beach and I never really wore makeup and my mom showed that as an example. She wore makeup, just in a beautiful, effortless way.
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I had read the scripts that Nora Ephron had written as a movie about Mike McAlary. We were never able to make it at HBO because we couldn't cast it properly and when I left I called Nora and said, "Look, I actually think that the movie luckyguyindustry has changed. It's very unlikely that you'd be able to make this as a movie. I actually think it's a play."
