You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.
It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing that in the evening you'll be doing this.
In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.
Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.
The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.
It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.
Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.
You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?'
I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.
I feel a bit like when we came through the doors on the first day of rehearsals of that play, from that minute on, my whole life changed.
The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.
I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!
It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue.
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.
I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I've done it all my life; that's where my ability lies.
