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"I get to play a killer next."
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"I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person."
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"Lyricists play with words."
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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 never play without my cape."
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"That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed."
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"I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore."
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"Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process."
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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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"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
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"It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting."
Acting
"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."
Years
"They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping."
Prison
"I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York."
Character
"The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances."
First
"I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue."
Writing
"I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin."
Martin
"All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film."
People
"In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene."
Beginning
"Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors."
Actor
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