Play Quotes
The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.
I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.
It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.
Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.
When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.
Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.
I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.
You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.
Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.
Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us.
Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.
We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.
Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I'm letting people know how to reach right in and play with my workings. And they do!
I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.
To me the footballs are approved by the league and game officials pregame and we play with what's out there. That's the only way that I have ever thought about that.
We know about the Detroit offense with Calvin Johnson, the best receiver in the game. If this defense continues to play at this pace, they may have something to say about the NFC North.
I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.
I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.
I would say the biggest difference is that you're just in a studio by yourself when you're making an animated movie. You don't have anybody to play off of.
Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.
I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.
Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.
I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.
I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can't tell you any line from any play I've ever done.
From my point of view, it's very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say "not act," what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible.
I don't think I had a specific moment when I thought, "I'm not going to play music anymore." I just played less and got involved in other things.
I did pull out my old Telecaster, and have been thinking I'd like to play that loud with a drummer. But I haven't actually done that yet.