Sylvester Stallone Quote: 'When I tried to play characters ...'

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Profession: Actor
Nationality: American
Birthday: July 6, 1946

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Kangana Ranaut

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People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

Melissa Leo

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I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.

Sylvester Stallone

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I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.

Norman Rockwell

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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

Jacki Weaver

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With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

Louis Sachar

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From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

Kevin James

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I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

Jeff Foxworthy

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I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.

Summer Sanders

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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

Abigail Washburn

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This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

Paul Robeson

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I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

Steve Buscemi

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I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.

Jamie Blackley

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I don't know that I appreciate things more because of how I grew up, but I am very realistic with what I expect out of people and what they expect out of me.

Adam Carolla

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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.

Gail Devers

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I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

Eric Bana

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I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

Penelope Wilton

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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

Warren Rudman

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Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

Jason Isaacs

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To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

Eliot Spitzer

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