In the late '90s, we kind of took a sabbatical, and I got an invitation to play with a Japanese band and formed a supergroup called NiNa. It was Yuki from Judy and Mary and Masahide Sakuma from The Plastics, a Japanese equivalent of the B-52s. It went to No. 1 in Japan.
Of course there is a danger of typecasting, and since 'Jewel in the Crown' appeared, I have had countless offers to play sadistic policemen and middle-class misfits.
I remain mindful that the role of a judge is a limited one and that judges can't solve every problem. But at the same time, judges play a crucial role in safeguarding liberty and protecting the rights of all citizens.
I've never been a guy that's been salty about the shots I'm getting. I just try to play the right way.
My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.
It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read and admired as autobiographical expression. And thanks to the democratic exposures of the web, it's easier than ever to document private experiences and divulge the most intimate secrets.
Long periods can pass between the times you play for a championship, so you have to savor those moments.
I'm a terrible drummer; I almost cannot play the guitar nor sax nor trumpet.
I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.
I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.
I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'
Young people will tell you, if you're not prepared to write the most violent, the most misogynistic, the most horrible kinds of rhymes and scenarios, you are not going to get air play.
During my school days, I was doing a play, and my costume fell on the stage. I really wish it didn't happen.
I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.
The first stage play I ever did was a school play called 'The Wishing Chair.'
When I was about ten years old, I was brought to London to watch a production of 'The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.' I think it was at Sadler's Wells in maybe 2000. I watched it because my school was putting on a production of it, and it was the first school play that I was able to audition for a speaking part.
I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.
