Quotes About Perspective

I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.

I've never played someone where I felt it was beneficial to build from the outside in.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.

Moving out and living on my own was a big thing, but to be in a different country with different coaches and a different mentality changed me as a person, as a player, the way I think about things and the way I see people.

The players think it's all about them! It's not about them - it's about the game of football, man!

Galliani is a great leader but can't understand players.

A lot of coaches and players get so tunnel-visioned that when they do have some time off, they spend it concentrating on the game.

Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.

People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.

The playoffs is ? I think I took it for granted a little bit. My first two years I kind of just thought that always happened, I guess.

You don't talk playoffs a few weeks before training camp.

In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.

Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

If you are in an Edward Albee play, you say Edward Albee is the greatest playwright of all time... If you're in an Israel Horovitz play, you say Israel Horovitz is the greatest playwright of all time.

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

It is such a joy to join a legacy of amazing female playwrights who have managed to break through the glass ceiling and reinvigorate the Broadway stage by bringing a fresh and necessary perspective.

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.