Playing Quotes

I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.

It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

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

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

I think that my career speaks for itself and shows the type of player I am. I have never had a teammate who didn't enjoy playing with me. There are always going to be skeptics, but chemistry will definitely not be an issue.

This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for?

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.