Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.
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Related I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I... RYAN GOSLING As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenp... HUGO WEAVING I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you ca... MALIK JACKSON Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? ... MEGAN MULLALLY Why can't a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can't I be a teacher? Why can't I be a foo... GRIZZ CHAPMAN It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de... DYLAN WALSH I'm just an actor, and if I can leave something behind that my kids will be proud of, then that&... JOHNNY DEPP Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people the... BUTCH TRUCKS I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I ... TAMMY BLANCHARD When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instru... SPIKE LEE I'm fortunate: I can play as long as I want to play. There's no coach or trainer who is goin... LLEYTON HEWITT I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees t... BRION JAMES As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other ba... ROSS BUTLER There's a certain time that when somebody asks you a question, you answer them. I don't thin... REGGIE JACKSON I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's d... RYAN REYNOLDS There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I... ALEX KAPRANOS It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like i... D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jea... NAT WOLFF I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'M... ELLEN BURSTYN I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engine... BILL BUDGE Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be cam... CILLIAN MURPHY I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything ... ALAN LADD I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there. JASON MARSDEN I can't play a character that I am judging. RACHELLE LEFEVRE I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they a... JASON MRAZ I love 'Child's Play 2!' I love Don Mancini. That movie has a great theme: You better li... BETH GRANT I'm very much a believer in the character always heading for something or after something. But t... MONICA DOLAN If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows l... DEL SHANNON I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was ... ODED FEHR I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to ... TYGA As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I ca... YAEL NAIM I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They ca... ANNA FRIEL People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don&... BILLY CORGAN I keep saying if I ever get a good amount of quiet time that I want to learn to play cello. It's... ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian... BRYAN BROWN I can put my legs behind my head, but that's pretty much it. An early agent said to me, 'If ... DOUG JONES I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't... EDWARD HERRMANN You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've be... KEANU REEVES I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or ... OWAIN YEOMAN I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu... JACK COLEMAN I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choos... STEVE CARELL I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing a... RANDY HOUSER I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovabl... JULIE KAVNER If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the ... MARSHA NORMAN I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can... RAJIV OUSEPH I'm not saying that what the radio plays isn't good. My issue is with what they don't pl... DJ JAZZY JEFF You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's j... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and b... RUSSELL CROWE It's never been easy. But I've always wanted to play hockey. I love hockey. I'd rather play hockey t... MANON RHEAUME I've always been an eccentric, a rocker at heart. I can't play the guitar, but I can play th... GUY FIERI Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you... SHARON GLESS I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no ... SAM CLAFLIN There's not a Sunday that goes past that I'm not excited to play this game. I feel as if I... CAM NEWTON I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and p... GRACE JONES I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo... DAVID CASSIDY I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, bu... IDRIS ELBA There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's an... PAUL WELLER I never think about the next movie. I always think about the situation I'm in now, but you do th... ALEX PETTYFER I don't believe any artist who says, 'I had to do that because DJs will tell me I can't ... PATTI SMITH I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn... ETHEL WATERS I love the Western genre. In fact, one of my dreams is to play a cowboy on screen, like Clint Eastwo... RAHUL KOHLI Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, lik... ROSEANNE BARR I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train mysel... CAPTAIN BEEFHEART It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and p... MICHAEL JORDAN I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a kn... TILMAN J. FERTITTA I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. Y... CARICE VAN HOUTEN I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can b... DAVID SUCHET I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and... PIERCE BROSNAN I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I... SHABAZZ MUHAMMAD Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original... BUBBA SPARXXX When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can alw... JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS I have some NASA memorabilia from the early Apollo days that I can't imagine parting with. I'... MATTHEW DADDARIO I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball. LAMAR ODOM I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't ju... NEIL PEART I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the... TAISSA FARMIGA You just don't want to get pigeon-holed into one position. That's why even though I start ou... LISA LESLIE I think I'll always live in Fort Worth. It's great that I can now go anywhere I want to play... LEON BRIDGES It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk a... BJORN BORG Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's... MARK MORRIS I think you can appreciate different interpretations. Art is not a contest. I can even appreciate he... JOSHUA BELL Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete... POPE BENEDICT XVI Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase tha... JOHN ABERCROMBIE You look at the part in '12 Years A Slave,' you finish that script - I mean, it's a powe... PAUL DANO I don't plan or schedule my career thinking first I will play a common man, then a police office... NIVIN PAULY But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endl... CHRISTIAN BALE Me not being able to play the way that I can play, that's when you kind of know it's that ti... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of pl... TAIYE SELASI I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never bee... RINGO STARR It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a... CAREY MULLIGAN Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to ... SASHA GREY My main goal in life is to be happy. If I can make other people happy by doing what I love, then I f... CYRILLE AIMEE Now, when I play soul piano, for instance, and I play a rendition of 'Spain,' I do it decons... CHICK COREA I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedbac... ADAM OATES That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character yo... JULIANNA MARGULIES I don't have a 'Life's short, play hard' type of philosophy. That's about fear. ... ERIKA CHRISTENSEN I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies,... CARRIE-ANNE MOSS I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun,... PAGET BREWSTER I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to... IAN RUSH I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because i... DAVID NAUGHTON When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So ... TOM PETTY
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For gentlemen who see;
But Microscopes are prudent
In an emerg... EMILY DICKINSON Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. EMILY KIMBROUGH Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the ... EMILY BRONTë He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. EMILY BRONTë Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-br... EMILY BRONTë One need not be a chamber to be haunted. EMILY DICKINSON Forever is composed of nows. EMILY DICKINSON A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other... EMILY BRONTë I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tel... EMILY DICKINSON Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. EMILY DICKINSON You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray... 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EMILY BRONTE Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words --... EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the word... EMILY DICKINSON Where thou art, that is home. EMILY DICKINSON They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. EMILY DICKINSON His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have n... EMILY DICKINSON To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe... EMILY DICKINSON How the old mountains drip with sunset, And the brake of dun! How the hemlocks are tipped in t... EMILY DICKINSON I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Thro... EMILY DICKINSON Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone y... EMILY CARR I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ... EMILY BRONTE Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary gra... EMILY BRONT This is the Hour of Lead -- Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow -... EMILY DICKINSON Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. EMILY BRONTE To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else. EMILY DICKINSON After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. EMILY DICKINSON The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. EMILY BRONTE Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- EMILY DICKINSON His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon... EMILY DICKINSON Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, bu... EMILY MILLER Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, Underneath their fine incisions, stirs ... EMILY DICKINSON Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain ... EMILY DICKINSON A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into somethi... EMILY BRONTE Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's e... EMILY CARR Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's... EMILY DICKINSON Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not a... EMILY DICKINSON A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal frien... EMILY DICKINSON The fog is rising. EMILY DICKINSON Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. EMILY DICKINSON 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventu... EMILY DICKINSON I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixi... EMILY DICKINSON Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes -- in other words, essential! EMILY POST I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven. EMILY DICKINSON Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency EMILY DICKINSON To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a home might be added the modern sup... EMILY POST There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetr... EMILY DICKINSON He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor t... EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease on Life the Achin... EMILY DICKINSON His labor is a chant,
His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of ... EMILY DICKINSON Inebriate of air am I,
And debauchee of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From ... EMILY DICKINSON God preaches, a noted clergyman,
And the sermon is never long;
So instead of getting to heaven... EMILY DICKINSON And so upon this wise I prayed,--
Great Spirit, give to me
A heaven not so large as yours
... EMILY DICKINSON Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe... EMILY DICKINSON "Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the word... EMILY DICKINSON There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons--
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of C... EMILY DICKINSON If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk. EMILY DICKINSON The mountain at a given distance
In amber lies;
Approached, the amber flits a little,--
... EMILY DICKINSON The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
... EMILY DICKINSON Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive... EMILY DICKINSON