Playing Quotes

President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.

Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

I'm incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was doing, I would get very nervous about the size and the magnitude of the importance and responsibility of being a villain in the world of 'Batman.'

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

I'm tired of playing the brat.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere.

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

I had fun coming every day and playing in front of a packed house - it was exciting.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.