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Dan Castellaneta

"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."

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"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."

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"In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on."

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"Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon."

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"I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore."

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"You don't really know a song until you play it live."

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"I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it."

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"If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing."

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"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."

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"I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation."

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Amber Hurdle

"No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard."

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"But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play."

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"To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets."
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