Play Quotes
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I have improved a lot, but I would like to improve more, to be better defensively and understand the play better.
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I get to play around with different ideas and beautiful melodies. I don't have to yell in a rock voice. I think you can get an emotional depth in the types of rooms we're playing that you can't find in larger rooms.
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I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the way your career is unfolding and all the talk about gravitas etc etc, so I had a strong feeling that someone was going to offer me the part of God. I was totally prepared to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' unless it was a comedy.
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To actors on opening night: You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play; but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there; now they are sitting out front; you have everything you need.
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I'm not going to change the way I play.
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It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief.
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Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.
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A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can't tell you the amount of times I've been told I'm not sexy. I don't wear my sexiness overtly doesn't mean that I can't become that girl for a role. That's what I do; I become things. Use your imagination.
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I try to play the same way, play the same way over a longer period of time.
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My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
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Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.
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It is challenging and hard not to accept all stereotypical roles that get thrown your way. For me, I've been really, really lucky because I have been able to play a lot of different parts.
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I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.
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'Barracuda' is very fun to play because it's like a galloping steed of a rock song.
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I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.
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I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.
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A Latino actor can't play this and a Latino actor can't play that because they're Latino.
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A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.
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I think it's interesting that when you play a lesbian, people ask you if you're a lesbian, but if you play a serial killer, nobody asks you if you're a serial killer.
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Nothing is personal. Everything is play.
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That's what changed the football fortunes of this franchise. It was huge, ... He sent a message to the rest of the NFL that Green Bay was a great place to play.
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Every character I play is me.
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We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.
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I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.
