"I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go."
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"There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful."
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"I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's."
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"Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?"
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"When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL."
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"Plays have to be made, and we have to find a way to make them. All of us."
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"If you're going to play what-if --which, by the way, is a huge waste of time and energy, not to mention an act of supreme, center-of-the-universe narcissism-- you have to play it both ways. If you're going to imagine yourself as an accidental villain, you have to give yourself equal time as an unwitting hero. As somebody who prevented God-knows-what dire disaster simply by doing exactly the things you did."
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"My heart had a crush on him from the moment we met, but it was faint, and the rest of me stubbornly refused to play along."
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"I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head."
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"I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical."
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"I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why."
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"There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman.""
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"With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore."
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"Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again."
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"Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on."
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"You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique."
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"The wonderful thing about digital process is that I can be cast in films that I would never be cast in. If I have it in my soul to play the character it doesn't matter what my face looks like, or my age. It's really liberating."
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"You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind."
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"You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage."
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"I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge."
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