I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
I was very fortunate to take piano lessons from a young age, and the only times that we were able to play on Steinways was at our recitals, which were really nerve-wracking. Partly because we got to play on a Steinway.
All the kids at the kindergarten had to play, or at least touch, the piano. It was a good start. Then, after kindergarten, all my friends took piano lessons, so I joined them.
I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.
I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.
When you play with another piano player, it's just second nature to play the parts that need to be played.
I thank God I'm in a position where I can pick and choose - there are some roles I don't play.
You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.
That's usually what I indulge in if I play some games - pinball.
I collect Gottlieb games, and I play classic pinball.
I like to read comics, and I'll listen to records, and I like to play pinball.
I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'
I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.
On 'Platoon' I was offered in 1984 a very tiny part that Ivan Kane would go on to play. Then the financing fell out, and the film was scuttled for two years.
I wanted to play baseball!
I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
I just want to play baseball.
It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
I had an addiction to play baseball.
