"I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up."
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"It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song."
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"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."
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"Yesterday's concert was a success. I hasten to let you know. I inform your Lordship that I was not a bit nervous and played as I play when I am alone. It went well... and I had to come back and bow four times."
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"It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games"
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"I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium."
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"Accursed be he who plays with the devil."
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"I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner."
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"What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it."
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"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."
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"How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?" I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them."
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"I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'"
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"Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you are building into a form in your life. The thing worth considering is how they relate to each other in your context, not how they relate to something out there-how they were relevant on the North American prairies or in the Asian jungles hundreds of years agon, but how they are relevant now-unless by contemplating their former meaning you can begin to amplify your own understanding of the role they play in your life."
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"Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles."
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"It's not what you play, it's how you play it."
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"When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands."
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"Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth."
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"Play what you know and then play above that"
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"We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em."
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"It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it."
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