Play Quotes
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I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town.
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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
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When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.
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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'm not a musician, I just play bass.
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I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.
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I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'
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To get to play someone who was in some capacity the King of Harlem, that meant something to me. Deep within my bones. I was inspired by the energy that I knew to be a real thing.
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One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.
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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
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In the long run, you have to have patience and integrity and a plan. You can't compromise your vision. I'm a bit of a control freak, brutal when it comes to my art because I believe it's the best way of doing it, for me. My stubbornness has given us the chance to play in some amazing places that most people never would have been allowed to play in. If I don't put a value on my work, then nobody else is going to.
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'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.
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I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.
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When I'm not working, I like to play golf.
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A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.
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We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.
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Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.
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I like to play with tropes.
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I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.
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I think if we stay healthy, we've got a chance to play in that game. Because we have under 30 kids, they have to stay hungry.
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I'm here to play different characters.
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In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
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I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
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Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
