Quotes About Expression

People have to see play as more important than what it currently is. We don't want to get boxed into thinking play only happens on a playground. The best type of play is all kinds of play.

A good director makes a playground and allows you to play.

The indie film scene was like a playground for me, which allowed me to try all sorts of things without being judged.

I've always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off.

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.

It's my goal to help actors achieve their best work, and I think I speak the same language as actors, so I understand how they do it, and I just love being able to create the playground in which they build their beautiful sandcastle.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

I started writing lyrics to clash with other people in the playground. Now I've developed my own voice and my own style. There's no one out there that does the same thing as me.

I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

I'm not a big fan of guitar face: you know, when someone's playing guitar, and they make this really embarrassing face, like they smush their lips together and... they look you in the eye, and it's really humiliating.

It's about the music, not the color of the person playing the music.

Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.

I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.

People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.

Those moments of play that we do get in meta-life, like playing music, or golf, or word-play, or flirting - those are some of the best parts about being alive.