Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.
People say that they wouldn't pay to watch me play, but even I wouldn't pay to watch him play!
The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play.
PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.
When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.
When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.
Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
I'm ready to lose my life if that's what Portugal needs to win. I'll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.
I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.
I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.
I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.
The qualifying system helps the top guys like Sergio Garcia, who play most of their golf in the U. S. They can rely on the world rankings and just play their four extra events [with the four majors and three World Golf Championship events counting as seven European events]. But for the other guys it's tough, and I don't know if that can be changed. It is a tricky situation.
As you awaken, the present moment becomes your home. You still play in the world of time, but you're not identified with the story unfolding there.
When you have momentum going, play the momentum
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.
When I photograph someone, I want to shoot the subject and get them out of my studio so I can play with the photos and do all the stuff I want.
If I was white I would have been like John Wayne. . . I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play
When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.
I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.