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"In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win."
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"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."
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"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."
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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"
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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working."
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"The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met."
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"I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty."
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"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."
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"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."
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"Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it."
Life
"And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise."
Film
"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
Actor
"Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had."
Time
"Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student."
Family
"So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me."
Acting
"I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in."
Act
"I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation."
Challenge
"I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?"
Baby
"The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk."
Life
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