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I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. 'You're in theater but you can play football?'

— Dennis Haysbert

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I played basketball. I went to school and played basketball and was trying to pursue that as a career path and kind of just fell into acting.

— Robbie Jones

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.

— Louis Gossett, Jr.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

— David Morse

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

— Sigourney Weaver

I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.

— Zendaya

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

— Aaron Tveit

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

— Joe DiMaggio

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.

— William Kraft

Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.

— Kevin Daniels

✗Opposing Perspectives

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

— Patrick Ewing