Playing Quotes

I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.

My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

Hit the ball pretty solid. Haven't played a lot of golf this year, so was really unsure of what it would be like. I've been playing pretty well lately, especially hitting the ball solid.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

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?

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.

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'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.

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account.

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.

Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.