Playing Quotes

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.

I'm always playing the nice guy in most of the projects that I do.

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop.

I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.

My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.

I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.

We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us.

J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part.

No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989?

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

When I'm making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How are people going to enjoy playing the games we are making today? And as long as I can enjoy something other people can enjoy it, too.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.