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I remember playing the Mad Hatter in a school play and feeling very comfortable in the character. -- John Burnside
I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school. -- Bill Hader
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did. -- Jack Black
The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it. -- Olivia Colman
There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play. -- Patrick J. Adams
I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementary's school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5. -- James Frecheville
I did 'Spanglish' and went back home, and the next thing I did was my high school play. My agents at the time were like, 'Uh. What?' -- Sarah Steele
I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation. -- Hector Elizondo
You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.' -- Donny Osmond
I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again. -- Stellan Skarsgard
When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university. -- Rory Kinnear
It wasn't until I got into seventh grade, I think, that I realized that doing plays might be a fun thing, and so I auditioned for the school play - and got in, as it turned out. -- Chris Parnell
I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame! -- Bryce Dallas Howard
I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!' -- Katie Cassidy
I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill. -- Kim Cattrall
The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark. -- Oscar Isaac
I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed. -- Emiliano Salinas
Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them. -- Simon Sinek
I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like? -- Al Pacino
When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school. -- Gary Oldman
When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me. -- Arthur Smith
My plan was I just knew, I think the first time I was in a high school play, and I liked the feeling of that. Getting on the stage and entertaining and audience. Eventually, I went to New York and studied my craft, and I was in school for two years in the same class with Joanne Woodward and Steve McQueen. -- David Hedison
I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team. -- Ron Perlman
I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies. -- Kristen Stewart
Play it cool, that's the old school rule man... -- Nas
I used to play tenor sax in high school, man. -- Sean Price
I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting. -- Kaitlyn
I went to Q-school knowing that I could play well and get through. -- David Duval
Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now. -- John Marsden
I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college. -- Joe Biden
I did play Jesus in 'Godspell,' in high school, because I guess I'm a nerd. -- Jessica Pare
PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple. -- Edward Tufte
Going to dancing school, or being in a play, is a very familial feeling. You're around friends. -- Teri Garr
Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana. -- Les Miles
I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school. -- David Gilmour
Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with. -- Ice Cube
I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear. -- John Mayall
Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star. -- Russell Wilson
I ain't afraid to tell the world that it don't take school stuff to help a fella play ball. -- Shoeless Joe Jackson
I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar. -- John Petrucci
I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball. -- Shoeless Joe Jackson
We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright. -- Bruce Springsteen
I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!' -- Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school. -- Pawel Szajda
I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college. -- Oscar Robertson
You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass. -- Stanley Clarke
I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school. -- Oscar Robertson
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Then to have your baby playing at the school you played at and having him play well is a special treat. -- Jerry Kramer
I remember coming home from school - I couldn't wait to get to the piano so I could play and practice. -- McCoy Tyner
I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college. -- Jodie Foster
One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment. -- Jacki Weaver
I don't want to do something where I play a kid in a school. And I don't understand these spoof movies. -- Ed Westwick
Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play. -- Chris Gabrieli
Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional. -- Isabelle Huppert
During my school days, I was doing a play, and my costume fell on the stage. I really wish it didn't happen. -- Virat Kohli
I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school. -- Eminem
I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football? -- Art Donovan
I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms. -- Nile Rodgers
I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music. -- Kevin Eubanks
I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school. -- James Vincent McMorrow
The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me. -- Bela Lugosi
School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works. -- Chris Riddell
Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play. -- Jim Crace
You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well. -- Cynthia Lewis
If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine... -- Zac Efron
I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks. -- Carl Crawford
I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5. -- James Frecheville
Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net. -- Jackie Mason
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. -- Keanu Reeves
My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste. -- Virgil Green
If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal. -- J. R. Martinez
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do. -- Jesse Eisenberg
In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics. -- Allison Silverman
I feel sorry for high school teams still named the Cougars. Now what does the coach say? Get out there and play like horny old ladies! -- Dana Gould
I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special. -- Cobi Jones
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play. -- Zoe Kazan
Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens. -- Richard Louv
You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school. -- Josh Turner
I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible. -- Peter Riegert
It's absolutely crucial that every child-serving organization - be it an elementary school, daycare, or community center - provide its children with time and space to play. -- Darell Hammond
I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball. -- French Montana
I have a nut allergy. When I was at school the other children used to make me play Russian roulette but force-feeding me a packet of Revels. -- Milton Jones
Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to school there. -- Lee Brice
The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.' -- Stephen Furst
When I finish my school work for the day, I like to go play basketball, ride my bike or skateboard, play video games, or go free running. -- Max Charles
I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently. -- Jake Epstein
The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead. -- John Krasinski
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system. -- Max Hastings
I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated. -- Kyle Chandler
Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands. -- Billy West
Don't go to a school just because your friends are there or because it sounds like a dream school. Go to a program that fits your style of play. -- John Wall
I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport. -- Frank Bruno
I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over! -- Jason Aldean
As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it. -- George Meyer
I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down. -- Elle Fanning
As I see it, the debate between summer vacation vs. year-round school glosses over the most important questions. Namely, how can we bring play back to our nation's schools? -- Darell Hammond
My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records. -- Chuck Mangione
It doesn't matter if it's a school play or a dumb TV show. It's your work. You should care about it so much that people get annoyed with you. -- Tina Fey
There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise. -- John F. Kennedy
I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater. -- Daniela Bobadilla

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