"If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it."
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"Work? It’s just serious play."
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"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
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"Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in."
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"And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery."
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"Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party"
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"Hippies, hippies... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!"
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"Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money."
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"Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my feet and other kids' feet, and that was his thing."
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"I want people to think they can't die until they see me play."
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"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
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"You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives."
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"The navel region is the centre of the vital. It is from here that the movements of the vital rise upward. Above the navel and behind the chest is the centre of the play of emotions and below this takes place the play of the physical. Mulādhāra is the base of the physical. In between the Mulādhāra and the navel, there is another centre of the vital."
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"In the normal play of our mind there are all sorts of perversions; hence the need to stop all these things and inculcate right thinking, right willing - in other words, Truth must be established."
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"I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians."
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"Montovani? They play Montovani to insomniacs that don't respond to strong drugs"
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"The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way."
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"Business is business, no child's play."
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"When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's imagination, which yet must be filtered through our own. There is no other way. And in acknowledging this tableau, this revelation, we must "hesitate", we must doubt, as the composer doubted, for no valid creation can issue unscarred by doubt, by that vast flux of wonder which precedes the construction of being."
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"The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays."
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