Playing Quotes

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.