When you're used to seeing someone being coldly efficient on court and suddenly they go on stage and into your world - it's fascinating.
I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
You can't skip any stage of your life, it's all part of the molding process into a better you
I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block.
I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.
What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.
If you don't have a certain amount of stage fright, then it's not going to be that interesting. It's not going to have the inner vibration. I think screen work needs inner vibration.
I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.
I do play drums when I'm on tour.
To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.
I don't play to sweat, I play to win.
If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.
I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
I just want to play music with a band, live.
Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.
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During the Government’s recent overhaul of GCSEs, I was asked to join a consultative group advising on the English Literature syllabus. It quickly became clear that the minister wanted to prescribe two Shakespeare plays for every 16-year-old in the...
Cooking is like playing a violin. The bow is a tool used to play, as is the knives and other tools you use to prepare. (a chef's knife is even held in the same manner) Spices are the notes used in the score. The way the food is cooked and prepared is...
