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I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the level of the cheapest dime novel.
I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.
When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.
There's an actor in the TV show 'Prison Break,' Robert Knepper, who plays a violent sociopath, and he's just incredible in that role.
I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically.
I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.
I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being.
I wanted to make an album that plays from the top to bottom and feels together and complete. That's just something that felt important.
You know, I grew up watching all kinds of films. So, as an adult, I wanted to be involved in all kinds of plays and television and film.
I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.
Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.
I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams.
Bobby Ball, who plays my dad in 'Not Going Out,' is very funny. He has a magical sense for comedy that nobody has been able to replicate.
In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song that plays next.
And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.
Everything feels like you're in slow motion and everything you do seems like it's about two or three plays of what everybody else is doing.
Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role.
One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.
Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
I'd like to improve on running plays. I want to see if I can hurt some more people. To me, I don't think I'm out there hurting enough people.
I think that those moments before a performer plays are the moments when the potential for something to be created may - or may not - arrive.
We really like to express ourselves artistically with all of the visuals and the theatrical side. It all plays a really important part to us.
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
I think John Williams, him and his team, have been incredible orchestrators. By that, I mean how he chooses which instrument plays which note.
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
I like the sounds of real, living, breathing musicians. When a real person plays something, there's a soul. They're giving you their emotions.
People get it twisted. They see the baseball stuff, and they don't see you as a human being. They see you as someone that just plays baseball.
If I'm not making plays, I can't get the crowd going. When I'm making plays, that's where I can feel a vibe and can get into it with the crowd.
I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'
There weren't many plays for me. A lot of my stats came off broken plays, or when I didn't allow the options to play out and just took the shot.
The Middle East is not part of the world that plays by Las Vegas rules: What happens in the Middle East is not going to stay in the Middle East.
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.
I was in the National Youth Theatre, too, but there was no dancing there. I was doing plays like 'Julius Caesar' and playing the lute very badly.
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.
One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays.
On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me.
Well, I tell you... the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines.
Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.
You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make sure you're on the same page with everyone else.