Pastoral Resources

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

God does not play dice.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.

I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.