Playing Quotes

I reached the point where I actually enjoyed the umpiring more than playing.

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.

You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.

I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

I love being on the road, I love playing.

I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now.

You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.

The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playing them how they were recorded.

Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.