I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.
I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.
I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.
I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.
I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.
He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.
I like to play small clubs.
Some of my songs are turnt up, but that's just 'cause I have to make 'em like that so the clubs can play them.
Coach Reid is a great teacher. He understands how people learn, understands how to get people to get the concept of what the play is and why we're running it.
Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.
It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.
We pick players on their profiles. Over the years, I've learned that, if you have one cog that's not quite right in the system, that flow of how you want to play can't work.
I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.
I always thought that I could play football at the college level.
I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.
Half-hour comedy shows are like a play, one night a week.
I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.
I was kind of the comic relief in my household. We had a chronic illness in the family. And so, a lot of emergency room visits, and my role was to be silly and add levity, and we're Jewish. So every Passover is a performance. You kind of learn to role play and do voices at the Passover Seder.
