Played Quotes

I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.

To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

Little Walter I would've liked to have played with.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now.

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.

Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.

I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.