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"If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore."


"I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play."


"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."



"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."
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"There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it."
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"I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl."


"Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to."


"I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself."
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"I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart."
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"Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world."


"I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious."


"Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band."
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"The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different."


"I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me."
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"I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict."
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"I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play."


"I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around."
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"There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it."
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"It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course."
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"So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well."


"So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'"
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