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It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good.

For me, in the third book, when Peeta gets brainwashed by the Capitol, that's going to be fun to play. The rest of the time he's very much into Katniss, and for that to get turned around and to play it the other way, that's going to be very exciting.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.

We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.

I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!

I get to hang out with Billy Bob Thornton at his house. We hang out over there every time we're in L.A., because he doesn't go out. We'll hang and he'll play us some of his tunes. It's pretty awesome.

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.

I don't play the tuba.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.