Play Quotes - Page 18

• I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Long, Desire, Acting

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• I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

  John Powell

  Seven Years, Understanding, Age

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• It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.

  Howard Charles

  Nice, Character, Race

  "Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, and Howard Charles Talk THE MUSKETEERS, Character Backstory, Favorite Action Sequences, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 21, 2014.

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• The action stuff takes a long time but when you're there and you're doing it and you go into that take and you run and everything is blowing up around you and you're diving onto something it's actually incredibly thrilling and you feel like a kid again. Like a kid, who used to play and pretend all those things would happen and now they're actually happening.

  Stanley Tucci

  Running, Kids, Long

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• That singular uncompromising nature I think is always quite attractive, not just for an actor to play, we're attracted to uncompromising people whether they're nice or not, because they're 3D, they're solid, you can define them, it's not wishy washy.

  James McAvoy

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number of actors who had played Richard III in the past. And I was hoping of course, that one of them or all of them were gonna give me the magic key, the secret way in to play Richard III but none of them did that.But every one of them did say the following, "Be careful."

  Kevin Spacey

  Couple, Past, Keys

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• People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.

  Kevin Spacey

  Eight, Games, People

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• You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently."

  Kevin Spacey

  Night, Trying, Want

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• For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look. But, I think it's important to change every time and come up with something that's as interesting as it can be, for your characters.

  Johnny Depp

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

  Kevin Costner

  Sports, Player, Mad

  "Kevin Costner Talks DRAFT DAY, His Career, What We Can Learn from the Movies, How GIANT Influenced His Outlook on Life, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 7, 2014.

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• Some people come to you because if you're in their movie, it'll help them raise money. And some people come to you because they think you're the person to play the part.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, People, Helping

  "Kevin Costner Talks DRAFT DAY, His Career, What We Can Learn from the Movies, How GIANT Influenced His Outlook on Life, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 7, 2014.

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• I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."

  Kevin Costner

  Distracted, Persons

  "Kevin Costner Talks DRAFT DAY, His Career, What We Can Learn from the Movies, How GIANT Influenced His Outlook on Life, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 7, 2014.

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• No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Country, Couple, Artist

  "Harry Connick Jr. Talks DOLPHIN TALE 2, Balancing His Music and Movie Career, AMERICAN IDOL and His New Album". collider.com. September 14, 2014.

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• I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in those terrible times. [...] I'll get to wear a uniform.

  Ben Kingsley

  Men, Choices, Battle

  "Sir Ben Kingsley Talks THE BOXTROLLS, His Career, Voicing Bagheera in THE JUNGLE BOOK, The Mandarin, EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS, and More at Comic-Con". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. August 5, 2014.

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• As the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them.

  Kristen Bell

  Believe, Character, Order

  "Kristen Bell Talks Veronica Mars, the Show's Journey from the Small Screen to Theaters, Returning to the Character, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

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• I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way.

  Hugh Jackman

  Thinking, Years, Actors

  "Hugh Jackman Talks Reuniting with Bryan Singer, Battling Sentinels, How Long He’ll Play Wolverine, and More on the Set of X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 19, 2014.

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• I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  People, Mad, Soul

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 20, 2014.

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• Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

  Stanley Tucci

  Character, People, Matter

  "Alice Eve and Stanley Tucci Talk SOME VELVET MORNING, Making a Movie in One Space with Two Actors, 1:30 TRAIN, CATCHING FIRE and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. December 12, 2013.

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• I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world is rocking and cracking open in weird and worrying places. And I think Coriolanus, the play, reflected that.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Thinking, Dysfunction, Worry

  "Ralph Fiennes Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Collaborating with Wes Anderson, If He Will Direct More Shakespeare, and More in Berlin". Interview, collider.com. February 10, 2014.

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• From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I'm still doing it. I still love it so that's why I do it.

  Ringo Starr

  People, Wanted, Stills

  "Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band Talk PHOTOGRAPH, Their Upcoming Latin American Tour, How They Select Their Songs, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 30, 2013.

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• Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.

  Octavia Spencer

  Fun, Character, Who I Am

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• I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.

  Robin Zander

  Years, Guitar, People

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• Don't play an attitude; don't play a guy who's negative. Play a guy who's not trying to sell anybody on anything, he's just saying how it is and if you want to come by what he's thinking, you're welcome. If you do not, then do not.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Attitude, Thinking, Guy

  "Q&A: True Detective's Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, the Laurel and Hardy of Existential Despair". Interview with John Lopez, grantland.com. January 8, 2014.

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• I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.

  John McCain

  Sports, Fun, Wife

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• In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.

  Christopher Walken

  Mean, Get Better, Six

  "Seven Psychopaths Q&A: 10 Minutes in Heaven With Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell". Interview with Andy Greenwald, grantland.com. October 11, 2012.

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