Playing Quotes

With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.

I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

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

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.

I have multipersonality disorder - in a very good way, of course - when it comes to my fashion choices. When I first started playing around with my look, it was more of a Dita Von Teese pinup thing. Dita's really dedicated.

Playing with friends is a victory.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor.

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.

One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.

The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.