Playing Quotes

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.

Yes I still enjoy playing him. He's the best person to play isn't he?

I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform.

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

When I first started playing football, a headache was called a 'headache.' And now it's called 'a concussion.'

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

I have always found it an honor that people have wanted to buy my shirt and an honor that fans turn up to watch the team I am playing in. I have always found that a huge honor.

There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.

I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.

I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don't dislike it.

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.

I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf.

I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.

What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.

Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.

I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '.

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.