An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.
Internal Affairs' is my first full-length play.
Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids.
There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
In 'Leverage,' I don't really play an insurance investigator but a man who used to be an insurance investigator.
Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?
The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
I want to play whoever is opposite 'Iron Man.' I want to romance Robert Downey Jr.
My parents were really into music. They would play the Funkadelics, Parliament, OutKast; they would just play that all around the house. They'd also play Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, James Brown.
I was offered to play an Italian part in an Italian film. Although I could not take it up because I did not have the time, the kind of characters being offered to us are changing.
When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire.
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them combined, even if he played for the 'bad guys!'
I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it.
LeBron James is one of the best players in the league - and one of the best players to ever play the game.
If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
If I could play Jean Valjean, I think that would be the pinnacle.
