Play Quotes
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I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.
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If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck Berry...
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When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
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I love that I can play around with all types of music.
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I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.
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I like to play with tropes.
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I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
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To get to play a man that has broken walls, that's broken barriers, that's an honor.
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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
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I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.
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I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.
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Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.
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It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.
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Cuban Americans have little in common with immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and often their priorities don't align. If it seems like Cuban Americans don't have to play by the same rules as everyone else, that's probably because they don't.
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I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.
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You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.
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There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.
