Pastoral Resources

It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

I never play without my cape.

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.