"I have to play really loose versions of songs I've made on the computer."
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"The biggest challenge for me, as an actor, is to be informed, prepared and focused, at the same time. I had to just keep on working, prepping, reading and imagining, all the way through, but the biggest challenge is always to let go of all that and just be open to others. That's what we do, as actor. We play with each other and we stimulate each other, and we have to be prepared to be stimulated by the other. That's always my big challenge."
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"I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character."
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"A lot of people have a fear of Shakespeare. Even actors do. People are like, "Oh, I won't go and see Shakespeare because the language is so hard," but it is. When you read it on the page, you go, "What?! What does that mean?!" If you go to a Shakespeare play and you've never been, you sit there and go, "I'm an idiot! I don't get it!""
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"To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic."
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"As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting."
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"As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional."
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"I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology."
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"The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise."
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"I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play."
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"I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels."
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"I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page."
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"I would think that would be really liberating to play like a real cad or a villain or something like that, and that's something I haven't gotten the chance to do a lot."
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"I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play."
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"What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me."
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"I want to play in a place people want to hear me."
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"I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues."
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"Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them."
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"I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons."
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