My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
I can't find anything wrong with Ashton Kutcher. I think he's great. It's odd that in America there's a very mixed reaction to him. I think those that have only seen him on 'Punk'd' or 'That 70s Show' get him wrong. There's much more to him than those characters or that persona he plays in those shows.
Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.
I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
I loved, loved, loved the fight that I got to do with Matthew Bomer, who plays Bryce, when we did the fight scene that was back to back in the Buy More.
I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.
I've done choir since I was tiny, and I've always tried to get into plays. They all just meshed together. Now with my career, especially with music, people are like, "Which one do you pick?" I don't pick either. They're just different expressions of who I am.
You always have to lie. I've been in plays that people don't enjoy and I pray that they lie to my face when I come outside.
You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you.
If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.
Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.
I'd always loved the theater, and I began by writing plays. I work in the theater a lot in the UK, and I've worked in the theater out here quite a bit. Everything else - the films - followed as a consequence of that.
People aren't hiring just a picture, they're hiring someone they can work with. That plays a big role.
. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.
I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.
Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.
I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.
Always acknowledge hustle plays in practice.