I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.
Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.
I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.
Most people went to dance shows, but it was basically a table and a DJ playing and not really a spectacular thing. I brought the whole production with the effects - the best sound, the best lighting to blow the fans away.
I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.
I'm just a lipgloss, blush and mascara kind of girl. I like playing with a bright lipstick or a heavy eye... But not together!
Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.
So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.
It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.
You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.
Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.
I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.
We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.
I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.
My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.
I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
