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.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
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  • Kid
  • Back

• 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.

  

  Laura Osnes
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  • Joy

• Study first, play afterwards.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
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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.

  

  Bam Margera
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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.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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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.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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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.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
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  • Imagination
  • Debt

• Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

  

  Basil Rathbone
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• I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

  

  Carla Gallo
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• I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

  

  Kate Winslet
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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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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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.

  

  Haley Bennett
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• My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'

  

  Zendaya
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• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

  

  E. B. White
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• Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.

  

  Eden Sher
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  • Lazy

• Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
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  • Eyes
  • Honor

• That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

  

  Evelyn Anthony
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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.

  

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