Bob Wickman Quotes
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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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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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 still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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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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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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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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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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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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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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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
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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'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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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
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Play fast, play athletic. You may not always have a 6-10 kid, but there's an abundance of kids, 6-4 to 6-7, that are interchangeable parts.
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Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
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I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
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The girls, like, in we'll say Hooters, have less clothing than the girls I worked with in those days. We thought it was wild when they just wore little bells and so forth. But today, in restaurants, some of the waitresses almost work in the nude, you know, to get business.
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If I stink, I'm not going to play just to collect a paycheck.
