Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I took the part in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' because no one had ever asked me to play 'a life' before. I get to age through 30 years. The idea really challenged me.
When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Life must be lived as play.
What we play is life.
A play is a passion.
I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.
Old age is the verdict of life.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Play is the work of childhood.