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As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

Skeet Ulrich

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The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

Skeet Ulrich

Play

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

Kenneth Tynan

Past

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The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there.

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.

I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.