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"But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can."


"I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record."
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"I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl."


"I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that."
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"I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me."


"We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands."
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"I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer."


"A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song."


"Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff."
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"I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong."


"'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great."
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"I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version."


"We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones."


"The only other things, and again these things are hearsay, is that he could be pretty rough on directors, because he knew exactly the way he wanted to play the part. And he did so."


"It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn't play."
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"I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult."
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"And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go."


"Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney."
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