It takes somebody smart to play somebody dumb.

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they…

— Clint Eastwood

The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character…

— Scott Rudin

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I…

— Bruce Springsteen

When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.

— Bernard Hopkins

“They think that they’re smart and that the rest of us are dumb.”

— Joseph Heller

I frustrate myself as a writer. There are certain things that I'll think, 'Well, that would be really fun to play... if somebody else…

— Lena Dunham

Can't force anything. Can't try and make a play that somebody else is supposed to make.

— Myles Garrett

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

— John Hurt

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is…

— Ruggiero Ricci

If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.

— Herbie Mann

To be able to play somebody that says and does pretty much whatever he wants is great.

— Michael Rapaport

I think I need to play somebody who expresses themselves and is able to communicate on a more open level, something really different.

— Claire Foy

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for…

— Roger Waters

When you play with somebody and you don't even talk to each other on the pitch it's really difficult.

— Kolo Toure

When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often…

— Robert Loggia