I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.
A play visibly represents pure existing.
'Buena Vista Social Club' is a great song and a difficult tune to play.
When Alcatrazz played in Japan in early '84, the record label offered me the opportunity to do a solo album while continuing to play in the band. I wanted the whole album to have vocals, but the record company didn't want that. Initially, the album was released solely in Japan.
Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.
Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.
Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.
The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.
For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling... lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.
I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.
I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits.
So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.
Some places you play in America, it's like 'On the Waterfront.'
Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.
A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.
I play so many weirdos in movies that it's nice to play an attractive woman.
I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
