Playing Quotes

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playing them how they were recorded.

Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.

I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.

You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

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

I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

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.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.