Kate Winslet Quotes
I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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I'm not coming back to 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 don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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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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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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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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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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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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I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play.
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.
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A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
