I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.
As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy. " How do you play that?
Play the work with no innuendo - just honesty. Trust will follow.
I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie.
Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.
I would point to a song like 'I'm Not A Loser', which I tried to evolve as best I could over the years. But finally after years of trying to evolve it into something a little more, up to date I guess, we just don't play it anymore.
With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis.
I don't have pressure on me. I just put pressure on myself to play hard every day.
Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.
I'm drawn to real-life characters. A lot of the characters I play, I've had in me since second grade. I've been dragging them around my entire life, and then sometimes I marry them with different people. But seldom have I really come up with a new character. In my head it's like, "I'll pull that person out that I've been doing since sixth grade and see where they're at right now. ".
One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now. . . Some more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from brehind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
Every work brings new and different challenges. Research is always helpful, regardless of whether the play is contemporary or not.
Any play I do, anything I do in the theatre, it's absolutely essential for me in a sense, to create a family in order to. To create, in other words, to put a group of people together who love to share together what they're doing, rather than be individuals as such.
After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
I took it upon myself to be more aggressive. I wanted the ball. Coach gave me the ball and I just tried to attack (and) make plays, just take it to the rim and see what happens.
I promise to play for the logo on the front, not the name on the back