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In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.
Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.
As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.
I can't play any horns. Every time I tried to take saxophone lessons as a kid ... I can't whistle. I don't know if that has anything to do with.
If you're talented enough and play long enough, and put up numbers, you'll get to the Hall of Fame. That doesn't make you a World Series winner.
I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
There are tons of things I'd love to do. I want to do comedy. It's not that I don't want to play a superhero, but I got to play Conan and Drogo.
Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.
Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.
The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man
You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.
The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.
There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.
There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.
Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.
When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.
I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.
When you play by the rules, defy mental demons, overcome every challenge, and enjoy a walk in the country at the same time - that's being alive.
Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.
When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, "I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man."
There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so much you can put into them.
When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.
If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.
There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.
I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules.
We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.
Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.
It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about them, so you know what the opposite is.
When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.
I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his: I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.
Cricketers like Jadeja come once in a lifetime, and I am sorry he didn’t play in my time. Could have added a few more cheap wickets to my tally.
Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy.
I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.
I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.
I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.
A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.
I don't like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there's an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice.
If you never play you will never lose, but you won't win either. If you never climb a mountain you will never know for sure how good the view is.
In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.
But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.
It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.
Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.
I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of my favourite band of all time - AC/DC.
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.
Producing is important because if there is no one making the tunes, there is nothing for the DJs to play, and nothing for the people to dance to.
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
I don't think I had a specific moment when I thought, "I'm not going to play music anymore." I just played less and got involved in other things.
Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.