Play Quotes
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I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.
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The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession...
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I've always had a desire to play a cop or FBI agent.
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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
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People always talk about having two different swings, an aluminum bat swing and a wood swing. It is one of those things where you have to make an adjustment. But if you want to play at this level you have to be able to do that.
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I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
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I've gotten to play some pretty intense characters and I tend to think it's therapeutic for me.
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I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.
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If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.
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And what’s he then that says I play the villain?
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The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
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Charlie would bring a little more life, because he's younger. He's younger and he has more spunk. He'd be excited and jacked out of his mind to play, so if he came in there, it would be just a different attitude in terms of excitement and energy level, because he's a young guy that would be getting a shot.
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In the past games our power play was a working power play. Tonight it looked like a circus act, and it doesn't work like this.
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I remember working with Jackie Chan on Shanghai Noon 2000, and when we were working on the script, I thought that my character thought about being an outlaw the way a kid today would think about being a rock star, as a way to impress girls. So it was just kind of a funny idea, but once we had that idea, it changed the character and made it something that was funnier to me to play.
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Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.
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If I couldn’t play, I wouldn’t be alive.
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We'll just have to get to Cleveland and play a little better baseball.
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Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.
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This isn't to play down people who pursue acting... For me, I do acting just as a fun job. It is a phenomenal job, and I have fun doing it, but I relate more to my martial arts, to my baseball, to my film study. There are more facets to my life that I relate to.
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Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it. . . . Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.
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I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.
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I'm not going to play that game. I focus on my own issues. We've been able to very commonsensical.
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Everything we do from here on out has to be a team effort. If five guys play together on both ends of the court, we can make something positive out of this season.
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With a feature film you're dealing with so much more money and you've got to be very aware of the fact that you're really working with an audience. You've got to have a relationship with the audience. Play with them and show them things you want them to see.
