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That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.
I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.
I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.
I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.
Saw Torres play their first New York show tonight at Cake Shop. SO good. Do yourself a favor and check out her record. Her voice is KILLER.
I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.
I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.
What dance achieves, what play and sex achieve are the same thing that poetry achieves. They transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
I just do my best to put the ball in play and put it in play where no one's going to make a play on it and hopefully drive some runners in.
No matter how poorly you play, there is always someone you can beat. No matter how well you play, there is always someone who can beat you.
You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.
I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.
As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.
Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.
I had absolutely no idea of how I was supposed to play. I never learned music! I was just thinking: "if anyone can do it, I can do it too."
I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.
I hang in there all the time. I'm not afraid to be taken out. I think that's the biggest thing to do-just stay in there on the double play.
When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.
Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!
If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.
Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays; Come let us spend the lightsome days In the birks of Aberfeldy.
I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.
I've definitely been spoilt. Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.
This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"
I honestly haven't thought much about what to play and where, perhaps i should...it seems like most musicians are better at that than I am.
I like to do what I do in my house and I love to play shows, but I don't want to have to go out and talk to a bunch of people I don't know.
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
It's hard to keep a play alive moment-to-moment, you know? But there's another part of it that I really love, which is that you never know.
A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.
Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.
It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
I just try to work hard and run the offense as good as possible. I had a lot of guys around me who made a lot of good plays to help me out.
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly. Play as often as you can Work as smart as you are able. Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you're unsure of me because you've only ever really seen me play villains.
I don't think my style of play is what has prevented me from winning major championships. I think that execution has been more of a factor.
When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.
Everyone is fighting like crazy because it's the last Grand Slam. When you play the Grand Slams, you just have to give everything you have.
The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.
While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.
Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.
The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.
With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.
Every Olympics is something special. If you're fortunate enough to play for your country - there's just so much energy. It's truly amazing.
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'