Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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I really like performing for people.
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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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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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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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When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.
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I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.
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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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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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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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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
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Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.
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My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through.
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There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.
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We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!
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The only pressure you put on yourself is the one you want to. No one else can pressurise you.
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I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
