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I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.
You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.
If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself.
For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.
It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.
I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.
Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.
A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them?
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.
Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.
If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.
You've got to respond to the fans, and play well, or people will jump on you. They'll read something and jump on you.
Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by technical thoughts.
I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.
People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.
God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.
I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played.
Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.
People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.
First female referee can't play probably, either, right? But you're thinking the game like you know it? Okay, see ya.
I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.
Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.
I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.
One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.
If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can tell it's me.
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'
The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.
We learned sexual technique from our dog. He taught how to beg, and he taught my wife how to roll over and play dead.
The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.
You can play from the wrong position for a long time with good hands, but eventually it's going to catch up with you.
Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.
If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine.
I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.
Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.
I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.
The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.
I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.
If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it
Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.
I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.
I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.
A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.
I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'