When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.
I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.
I'm really excited about the revolution that is young people actually playing young people on Broadway.
I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.
We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.
I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.
Happy is fishing, boating, running, volleyball, cooking, dancing, playing the piano, gardening…as long as you remember it is.
My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.
For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.
Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.
I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.
I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.
If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.
That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.
Walk On Baiku Cup in hand, he sings I pass, playing deaf. Who's the Real street performer?
Those who are ignorant of science fiction movie tropes are condemned to play imperial stormtroopers.
