Playing Quotes

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.

I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.

Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room.

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

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

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

The last two records I liked playing a lot.

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.