Kate Winslet Quotes
I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
Quotes to Explore
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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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When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
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And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
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My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I'm on the top of the North or South Tower in 9/11, wondering whether I'm going to be burnt to death or I'm going to jump. And I think I would burn to death. And yet I'm impressed by the fact that hundreds didn't.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
