Playing Quotes

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

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

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

The last two records I liked playing a lot.

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.

I want to keep playing good golf.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.

Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they'd be out playing all the time.

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.