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Dustin Hoffman

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only."

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"In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on."

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"Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet."

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"Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon."

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"I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore."

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"You don't really know a song until you play it live."

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"I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it."

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"If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing."

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"It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself."

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"Blame is for God and small children."
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"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."
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"The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk."
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"A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution."
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"I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly."
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"I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil."
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