Playing Quotes

But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I've been pretty smart with my money. I'm playing because I want to play this game here - I want the opportunity.

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport.

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.

We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.

Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.

It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.

I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.

I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?

The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.