Playing Quotes

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.

Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.

I'm an actor and this is a role I'm playing. But people can get wacky.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked best for the band. So, I definitely changed my stuff up and I think we're playing really tight now.

I never want to quit playing ball. They'll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it.

The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.

But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well.

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun!

Maybe it's because One Direction was just on 'SNL,' or because I'm playing The Wanted on my Top 40 show, but in terms of boy bands, we're seeing this resurgence, and it's happening, whether you like it or not!

I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

I think it's important to never play 'crazy' - you have to know what kind of crazy you're playing.

You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

For me to become the highest paid player in the franchise, it was something I didn't anticipate. But I'm glad. I like playing for Cincinnati.

The point in me playing with Prince was to let a lot of people know that I can play trap. I don't think people know that.

I like being in the back. I've done that for so many years, I'm really comfortable doing it. I don't like the solo thing as much as I like playing drums behind someone.

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening.

Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.

You know, it's scary when you sign onto a pilot of a series because, as much as you want the series to go, you also want it to be a character that you'd be interested in playing for a long time.

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

It's what I've always wanted to do and each part you play gets you closer and closer to the roles that you dreamed of playing.

And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.

The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don't dislike it.

Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.

I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

Before 'Fringe' I was in 'Dirty Sexy Money' playing Jeremy Darling who was this bratty New York socialite.

I was incredibly intimidated playing Lincoln Lee in the alternate universe, which was the first role I played on 'Fringe' because I was actually the head of a Fringe division and the head of a unit that was going out and I had to lead entire SWAT teams of people. I really questioned in myself, 'Can I carry that responsibility?'

I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.

The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.

Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.