"I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others."
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"The first role I ever played I had the lead and it's pretty much stayed that way, though people take great relish in calling me a character actor, which I am. There are a lot of short parts I could play, but I only do them when they are like this ("A Few Good Men"), central to the idea of the movie."
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"A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel."
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"I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play."
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"Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt."
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"If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy."
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"You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all."
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"I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection."
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"There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA."
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"I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that TV and film can never do, and they have an immediacy that written prose often lacks."
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"I never write a play with an eye to film."
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"I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen."
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"It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game."
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"That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet."
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"I've always grown up as a tomboy and don't see myself as much of a girly girl, but when the time comes, it's fun to play dress up and embrace my femininity."
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"It is a beautiful world for the people who get to play the fist."
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"Nikolaj [Coster-Waldau] plays one of the ugliest villains. We had to create such a horrible guy, because he is the bad guy in the [The Other Woman] movie. We took him as far pathologically as possible."
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"Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing"
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"At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last."
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"In books, or work, or healthful play."
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