Pastoral Resources

Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film.

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players.

It's a lot more fun to play the bitch than it is to play the perfect girl 'cause everybody has a bad side inside of them.

No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard.

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.

But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck.

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.