#playing

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#agent #ages #ask #century #down

A veteran, calm and assured, he pauses for a well-measured moment in the doorway of the office and then, boldly, clearly, with the subtly modulated British intonation which his public demands of him, speaks his opening line, 'Good morning!' And the three secretaries - each of them a charming and accomplished actress in her own chosen style - recognise him instantly, without even a flicker of doubt, and reply 'Good morning' to him. (There is something religious here, like responses in church; a reaffirmation of faith in the basic American dogma, that it is, always, a Good Morning. Good, despite the Russians and their rockets, and all the ills and worries of the flesh. For of course we know, don't we, that the Russians and the worries are not real? They can be unsought and made to vanish. And therefore the morning can ve made to be good. Very well then, it is good. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#playing-roles #rituals #self-delusion #faith

Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#basic #chords #direction #evaporates #few

I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#ally #character #choice #definitely #different

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#better #feeling #i #may #musically

Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river? ↗

— Frederick Carl Frieseke

#effort #games #going #look #natural

I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#aside #being #channel #coming #doing

The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day - that's a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It's a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#come #day #fast #find #fit

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times. ↗

— Johnny Thunders

#because #behind #clubs #felt #getting

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#always #am #character #chess #convinced