Playing Quotes
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We want to say thank you the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll. Any entertainment to break up the work week is great. You can forget about life, relax and have a reminder that there is an appreciation there.
Neil Patrick Fallon The Bakerton Group -
When I am playing, I am in ecstasy; that is what I live for.
Claudio Arrau
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Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which of course I'm not, some part of you is in that character and it's hopefully believable. I always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than something I build in my mind.
Scarlett Johansson -
We definitely are playing better, but still have lapses. We still have a ways to go. As long as we go out with a high effort you never know.
Eddy Curry -
An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
George Wein -
The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.
Gerolamo Cardano -
We're playing upside-down baseball. But that's been our story. There's always somebody doing something he's not accustomed to doing.
Aaron Rowand -
I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
Richard Price
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I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.
Carl Everett -
I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.
Michel Legrand -
I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.
Cate Blanchett -
There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
Rumi -
I was in Las Vegas playing at the original El Rancho Vegas, with Joe E. Louis, who took me there as a supporting act. And he came to see me.
Eydie Gorme
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The fan support isn't the biggest but they're very loyal and very supportive. It's a very good group of fans and I enjoy playing in front of them.
Gerad Adams -
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings -
My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.
Michael Finley -
There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story.
Harrison Ford -
In India, at the community level, young men are playing an absolutely essential role in changing the cultural norms and deeply held practices concerning women. They are doing this in a way that not only empowers women and girls, but really empowers the young men as well.
Melanne Verveer -
You look at William Powell in 'My Man Godfrey' and he's a butler in that and he's very dapper. He's a very refined gentleman. I liked playing around with that, with the good posture and a style, a panache, and a way of moving about the room.
Evan Peters
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The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Michael Korda -
Graphic novels might really speak to one child who's struggling with the other kinds of reading and might help them discover that storytelling is joyful and personal and illuminating. They might find your way in auditorily by listening to audio books in the car instead of playing Game Boys or watching DVDs.
Emma Walton Hamilton -
When you're playing, every ball seems like the biggest event. When you're sitting back, you can see the overall picture better.
Alastair Cook -
You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones