Lee Ranaldo Quotes
I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case.
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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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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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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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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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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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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'
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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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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
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My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.
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I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
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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.
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I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession.
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I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case.
