Play Quotes
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.
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In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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I've been going long enough to prove what I wanted to prove, to get the girl I wanted to get, to make the money I wanted to make, to drink all the beer I wanted to drink. I've played - not exactly everywhere, but I've played enough places.
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I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.
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I want to play more festivals.
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I want to play someone really dark, like a real bad guy on screen. But I am sure I won't be able to do so because my fans will not let me do it. They are aggressive. My image is such that no one will allow me to do a negative character.
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Once I reached my 40s, I thought to myself that if I'm going to play live now, I need to really mean this. I can't go out and be a little bit, for one moment slovenly in my choices as a performer. I mean, these people have paid a lot of money to be here, they've been through the nightmare of getting here, starving themselves waiting for us to get on stage, so I'm going to give them what they came here for.
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I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.
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Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.
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With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
