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Play Quotes - Page 171

When you can laugh at yourself, you are free.

Ted Loder (2004). “Tracks in the Straw: Tales Spun from the Manger”, p.73, Augsburg Books

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

"Taylor Hanson of Tinted Windows". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. August 30, 2009.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.52, Penguin

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.65, Hal Leonard Corporation

Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even when you are in a play. It's when you understand it. If you understand it, you'll know why you want to act.

Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.67, Hal Leonard Corporation

I really love it when you get that strange combination of feelings that play against each other.

"Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 15, 2010.

I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.

"Rapper Najafi on the Fatwa: 'Fundamentalists Can't Take a Joke'". Interview with Georg Bonisch and Tobias Rapp, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2012.