Playing Quotes

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing.

I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am disappointed that my playing days are at an end. However, it comes to us all and it's knowing when that time is and for me that time is now.

There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.

Well, actually I don't care what surface I'm playing on.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

No it wasn't at the time cause you have to remember, I had been playing clubs since I was 13.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.

To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.

We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.

I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal.

Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.

The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players.