As an offensive lineman, having spatial awareness is key: understanding where the quarterback is going to be and understanding what the defensive end might do depending on the play we're running.
'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.
I used to play on Phil Spector's records, and he liked to use three pianists.
'Paris, Texas' gave me a chance to play compassion, and I'm spelling that with a capital C.
I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.
I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.
I'd love to play Spiderman, but I'm definitely too old for that role now.
I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.
I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church' would play on the radio or get in the charts, and I didn't think about dealing with a global audience.
I had the opportunity to play in many fantastic squads. I won with great teams but also lost with great teams.
So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.
International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.
Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play.
Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.
A 300pp novel can easily become a 200pp novel by printing with smaller type; a 100pp screenplay can potentially become a film of between 60-140 minutes in length; a 200pp stage play could be performed in anything from 30 minutes to four hours. For all these media, the script length is agnostic to the final work.
Staging any play is very exposing because, if you are going to do it well, you have to put so much of yourself into it.
You can play a gig as a band and not know that they hated you; with standup, after every line, you know.
I started acting in junior high. I was in 'Guys and Dolls.' I was Stanley Kowalski. In my head, before coming to Hollywood, I thought, 'I can play anything.'
