I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.'
I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs - 'Stardust', 'Blue Moon', 'Out Cold Again', 'Sophisticated Lady', 'Stars Fell On Alabama', a lot of different stuff.
I'm fortunate: I can play as long as I want to play. There's no coach or trainer who is going to say to me that I'm dropped or sacked, it's time to move on. I can play as long as I want to play.
I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.
Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying to get me to play piano, but I was more interested in riding dirt bikes and playing in the mud.
You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.
I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decide...
Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
If you think you can fall, you're more likely to.
Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.
Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered.
I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.
He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.
Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.
It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.
I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
Impossible doesn't concern me. My job is to dream.
I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.
The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.
