Playing Quotes

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.

You know, I like playing around with my voice and trying all different types of kooky voices.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.

It's definitely more fun playing a bad guy. It feels a lot better than playing one of the good guys.

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.

I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'

Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.