The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies.
If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health.
My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.
There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.
You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.
Andrea Jaeger plays tennis like she's double-parked.
The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
When I was about 16, I did a Neil LaBute play called A Gaggle of Saints from a collection of plays called Bash - very violent story about a young Mormon who goes to Central Park with his friend and beats up a gay guy. But it was the first thing I had ever done, and I thought, "God, this is fun! This is far more fun than anything else I've been doing at school. I want to stick with it. "
That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.
Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things.
You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.
Always acknowledge hustle plays in practice.