“In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.” DifferentPlayCharacterLightNightActorsSimpleAudienceTheaterEvery Night Author:Diego Luna
“I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.” FeelsYearsDifferentEndsPlayActorsBitsSoundFiveFourSickSillyMusclesFive YearsDrainedCobwebs Author:Matthew Macfadyen
“My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.” LooksI CanDifferentPlayPleasureFashionGuiltyWebsiteOutfitsDownloadsGuilty PleasurePictures Of Yourself Author:Indra Nooyi
“The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.” DifferentPlayCharacterDealsDepthLayersGreat Character Author:Frances O'Connor
“I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.” DifferentPlayCharacterWantedDifferent Characters Author:Stephanie Leonidas
“I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.” IfsThinkingDifferentPlayWould BeActorsChallengesRolesTypeAspire Author:Vanessa Lengies
“I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.” WayDifferentPlayWantedSchoolOpportunityCreativeAbstractExploringSchool Experience Author:Brie Larson
“You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.” LongDifferentPlayStoriesSleepStreetsMom Author:Adam Oates
“At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.” IfsWellsKindI CanDifferentEndsPlayCharacterWould BeAbleBeautifulKnownCareersApproachCraftsThe End Of The DayDifferent KindsBeautiful Life Author:Adepero Oduye
“If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.” IfsDifferentPlayAbleColdMusicalSingersDifferent ThingsMuddle Author:Elaine Paige
“I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.” LittlesDifferentPlayJobsFunBitsRolesLittle Bit Author:Ashley Rickards
“I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.” NeedsWritingTryingKindBookDifferentPlayDisciplineDown AndNotesDifferent ThingsTapeJournal Author:Amy Ray
“I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.” ThinkingWayWritingDifferentPlayCertainGirlMusicianDifferent ThingsSoloSteersIndigo Author:Amy Ray
“Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.” PeopleThinkingDifferentRealPlayFilmActingUniqueTheaterMusclesDisagreeFulfillingComplementDifferent ExperiencesFlexing Author:Eddie Redmayne
“All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.” WayDifferentPlayCharacterDarknessLightness Author:Alexander Skarsgard
“My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.” WayDifferentPlayProblemFindingsFemaleFallenDifferent WaysThirty Author:Barbara Stanwyck
“I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.” PeopleDifferentPlayShowsEnergyFunFitBaseballClubsPotatoesStadiumsBasementsIndianaTokyoBaked PotatoesFriends Show Author:Chad Smith
“Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.” LittlesDifferentPlayNaturalBoysFailingUniversalDistinctionRoughAggressionLittle BoysNatural Play Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.” DifferentPlayHonestNotesVersionsBeing Honest Author:David Spade
“Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.” DifferentPlayBeautifulSupportGoneCollegeNeededGladPianoMusclesScholarshipDifferent ExperiencesFlexing Author:Jamie Foxx
“Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.” DifferentPlayGroupsMusicianSeriesSingersNow And ThenTempoComposingInstrumentalists Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen
“Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.” PeopleIfsWayWantDifferentSometimesPlayInterestingOpinionRolesOne ThingGoing To WorkInteresting ThingsTypecasting Author:Aaron Tveit
“I've always enjoyed interleague play. It gives you a chance to see different clubs, to go to different places. It gives you a good chance to see where you are, where you stand with other teams.” GivingDifferentPlayChanceTeamClubsEnjoyedWhere You AreDifferent PlaceGood ChanceWhere You Stand Author:Jim Thome
“When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.” WayArtIdeasDifferentPlayDreamPerfectFantasyFashionCollegePhotographyDepthStorytellingDifferent ThingsArt PhotographyFashion Photography Author:Tim Walker
“Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.” InspirationalDifferentSoulPlayFilmLife IsWalksRolesStageBuddhismBirthPleaseTheatrePopcorn Author:Frederick Lenz
“I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.” WellsDifferentPlayHomeHeroSittingSevenFinalsVersionsDesksVariation Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.” IfsTryingDifferentPlayWholeBreakRecordsFitSpeedRitualBackwardsGrooveTurntables Author:Christian Marclay
“I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.” PeopleMindDifferentHardPlayJoySongWishMillionsWrittenKeysGlad Author:Chuck Mangione
“When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.” DifferentPlayRolesHappenedFrontsHollywoodThings HappenHelloQueues Author:Olivia Williams
“I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.” DifferentPlayBitsRolesStyleNew YorkDressesLondonParis Author:Rachel Zoe
“I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.” DifferentPlayCharacterRolesTypePersonalityBunch Author:John Hodgman
“Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldDifferentPlayMistakeKnow HowToughVulnerable Author:Ellen Malcolm
“Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.” PeopleIfsShouldDifferentPlayShowsHandsUsedForcePowerfulWatchesTelevisionFoolPoliceMediumsSomething BetterSitcom Author:Roone Arledge
“I have friends in different parts of the world, and they'll all go online at the same time and all pull up a movie and hit play, at the same moment, and then they'll comment to each other about it. They're sharing an experience, even though they're on different parts of the planet.” WorldDifferentPlayMomentsPlanetsOnlineCommentPull Ups Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“Every work brings new and different challenges. Research is always helpful, regardless of whether the play is contemporary or not.” DifferentPlayChallengesResearchContemporaryHelpful Author:Gideon Glick
“What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.” DifferentPlayAbleActorsRolesAimRange Author:Ruth Wilson
“I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.” IfsKnowsWritingKindSaidDifferentEndsPlayWantedSongOrderPresidentRecordsOne ThingStyleConversationAskingPhonesHearingCuriousLabelsCollaborationDifferent KindsSoloDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Ryan Adams
“I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.” IfsArtDifferentPlayCertainUnderstandingAreasSouthTongueDelicateAccentsSyllablesSlick Author:Yelawolf
“We had a chance to see a lot of different styles of play and you had to adapt to the different style each team plays. That?s going to help us come tournament time because the game in the Pac-10 is different from the Big East and we know how to adapt to the different styles. I?m glad I had that opportunity.” KnowsDifferentPlayHelpingBigsOpportunityGamesChanceKnow HowTeamStyleEastGladTournamentsAdaptabilityDifferent StylesPacs Author:Allan Ray
“Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the best foundation for later intellectual growth. Provides a way in which children get to know the world and creates possibilities for different ways of responding to it. Fosters empathy and wonder.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayChildrenImportantDifferentPlayFormGrowthWonderCreativePossibilityEmotionalHealthyIntellectualEmpathyFoundationDifferent WaysRespondingIncorporatingEmotional GrowthMagical ThinkingIntellectual Growth Author:Rachel Carson
“It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.” IfsDifferentMatterPlayWould BeTeamRingoHistory Of Music Author:Ricky Gervais
“Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.” IfsWantWellsPersonsDifferentPlayEyeSimpleBlindTheeClosingClosing Your EyesBlind Person Author:Morgan Freeman
“I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for an audience. The more the merrier. I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.” WantLongDifferentPlayFilmActorsHouseActingAudienceMaterialsTvsEmptySeriesIntentionTheatreDistinctionTv SeriesBlockbusterEmpty HousesMore The Merrier Author:Ian Mckellen
“My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.” DifferentPlayWantedFatherDadMy DadGrandfatherMy GrandfatherDotsDifferent Music Author:Elvis Costello
“My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.” DifferentPlayWantedJobsDadBandMajorsMy DadQuittingSteadyDifferent Music Author:Elvis Costello
“I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that 'a light' can be built from colour. I learned a great deal about interaction, that 'a blue' in different parts will play all sorts of different roles.” ImportantDifferentPlayLightDealsRolesBuiltBlueImportant ThingsColourInteraction Author:Bridget Riley
“Players will be able to adjust the volume from 1 to 100 in increments of 1. You could play the game 100 times and have an entirely different experience.” DifferentPlayAbleGamesPlayerVolumeDifferent Experiences Author:Peter Molyneux
“In Bergman's world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made films in Italy and other places, I was used in different ways. I was rather often cast as crazy people, maniacs. It was very good for me and it was fun because it is nice to play crazy people if you are not in reality. And I think perhaps that changed how Ingmar saw me. Suddenly I was on the more magical side of his world, playing the people with fantasies, variety, the artists.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayPersonsMadeDifferentPlayRealityFilmUsedArtistFunSidesFantasySawsNiceCrazyChangedColdIntellectualVery GoodCastsVarietyDifferent WaysIronicFrustratedSkepticalManiacsCrazy PeopleBergman Author:Erland Josephson
“I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.” DifferentPlayWantedLawyerSoccerAspirationDifferent ThingsSerendipity Author:Pete Wentz
“The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.” WayI CanDifferentCountryPlayMomentsHomePastPoliticalSituationTyrannyWarningRemindersDifferent PlaceCrucible Book:The Crucible Source: The Crucible