Plays Quotes

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.

I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over.

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.

When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays.

It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.