Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.
My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling. ” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.
You're going from audition to audition, changing in the backseat, and all that fun stuff that's great to do at one time in your life. That's when the 49-cent taco, as disgusting as it is, really plays into your day. It really helps you out.
I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good and well enough written, should not be knocked down because of its approach to its subject.
You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.
Mind, word and act; all three must be filled with the belief that all is His play; that is the genuine path.
"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.
They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that - playing the good guys is more challenging because it's harder to make them interesting.
Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment.
I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance.
Well, I'd never done an animated movie before, which is why I was so excited about doing it. It was one of the little boxes as an actor that I wanted to tick off. I wanted to do an animated film. So, after my mum got over the fact that I was never going to play Shrek's sister, this was the nearest I was going to get!
I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape.
I loved the movie theater so I always saw a lot of movies. And then there was a play, I saw in the local paper, they were having auditions for a play of a book I had read. Which was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. So I said, "oh, I've read this, so I'm perfect for the part of the lead. " His name is escaping me.
I'll play anyone in Uno and crush them.
That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.
Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.