"Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us."
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"Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play."
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"If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person."
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"There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment."
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"Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them."
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"The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop."
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"A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living."
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"The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share."
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"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."
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"I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up."
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"I prefer to be in a video than to play with it."
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"Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living."
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"The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all."
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"I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me."
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"Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress."
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"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."
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"My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff."
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"The World Cup gave me a lot of confidence - just to know that I can play at the highest level and not only complete but play well."
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"A bad guy in a movie has a lot of latitude for acting. He can walk up the wall, crawl across the ceiling, go piss in the corner and everybody will say, "Fantastic!" But somebody's going to have to catch that sucker. Somebody's going to have to play the guy who gets him in the end. And that's a better part."
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"What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence"
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