Playing Quotes

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.

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

I love to see Favre playing his best football, and if his mind his right, he'll probably have a fine season.

I don't think fashion week will go back to what it used to be because people are realising that the industry is completely changing. It's not just in Bryant Park any more, people are figuring out who their audience is, where they want to show, they aren't really playing by the rules. It's not so much about these editors, these buyers.

The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.

My way of playing is very different and Karpov plays very differently as well.

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

I amused myself playing with the journalists.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

I'd rather be running the game than playing it.

It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out!

I was tired of playing the goodie-two-shoes.

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

It's never easy playing 36 holes when you are concentrating so much for all the shots.

You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month.

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

People ask me all the time would I like to still be playing? No. I'm glad I played when I played.