Brad Mehldau Quotes
I've always just tried to be who I am and be honest in terms of what I play. If that reaches a larger group of people, great. If it doesn't - if it remains obscure - that's okay as well.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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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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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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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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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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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
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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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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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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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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.
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I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.
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I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that means you went to the store. iTunes Radio lets you discover it without you having to think about it.
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If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.
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No bum talks about a bum.
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I've always just tried to be who I am and be honest in terms of what I play. If that reaches a larger group of people, great. If it doesn't - if it remains obscure - that's okay as well.
