One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how they play ou….

From bell to bell, from when my entrance plays and I step through that curtain, people have to wonder what's going on inside that guy's head..

The importance of high expectations plays a big role..

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again..

No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of….

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: ….

They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"]..

School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine..

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own..

I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play.

I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a real city, old and fine and life plays i….

Nikolaj [Coster-Waldau] plays one of the ugliest villains. We had to create such a horrible guy, because he is the bad guy in the [The Other Woman] m….

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout..

If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too..

I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part….

It's so fun to play something that feels reckless - not all the time, but I really must be acting out something that I can't do in real life..

I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even ….

I don't think there are that many parts I could say unequivocally "I would not play that," but there's lots of parts I read and I think, "I don't rea….

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little….

I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle..