Recording can be enjoyable, but the hard thing is that you don't get any direct or immediate feedback like you do when you play live. Getting to see ….

People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you play a murderer, bu….

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make….

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks..

[David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994] ends with a White profess….

I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one..

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian or it's Western. But i….

The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play..

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!.

We're talking a lot about bullying and harassment and abuse tonight, and I can freely say that at some point in the future I want to play someone who….

As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role..

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the th….

My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix..

We'll just play it cool, like Elvis at 19..

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of pa….

It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that t….

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play just….

Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'.

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words..

I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over..

Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my m….