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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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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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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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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Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.
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You know, a lot of people have an instinct to downplay the fact that they are performing and be, like, 'There is no theatre here. This is just me playing the songs.' At some point I just realised how much better it could be if you weren't shy about being a performer.
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If you're racist you're not that clever. I mean, you couldn't even figure out that we're all the f---ing same
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If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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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.
