Playing Quotes
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It's wonderful being a mother playing anyway.
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This is slightly stripped back groover. I really enjoy playing tracks that have a slight old school feel but modern production. I pitched down my own voice for the ‘Input-Output” hook and built a groove around it. The track reminds me a little of my track “Get It Done’ and is simple and effective.
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Like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.
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The disparity between being a 10-year-old boy playing air guitar, wishing I was a rock star, and the reality of the whole thing is insane. A girl will throw her bra onstage, and I say to myself, if I was the guy that pumped your gas today, would you throw your bra at me?
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I'm not sure what I was good at as a kid. I was good at playing with Legos.
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The hole was playing downwind and I managed to get a good bounce.
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I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.
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We have got to get better on the bases. A lot of it is who we've got playing. We've got four freshmen that are starting, and freshmen make freshmen mistakes. There's some things we've got to learn from and get better. I think we will, but right now, I'll take the W.
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Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.
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Playing the drums hurts my back.
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When you're away from the course, obviously things are a little bit different. But when you're at the course, you're playing, you're grinding. Today, I'm preparing. I have enough on my mind out there trying to place my shots, and what angles I need to have, or where I need to be for certain pins, and stuff like that.
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I can't keep sitting on the bench and letting my life go on, smoking a cigar and not doing anything. It's not me. I want to be playing football.
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I like the idea of playing a historical detective.
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I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.
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Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.
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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.
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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.
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When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.
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Really focusing on what I have to do right now... no matter what role I'm playing - it alleviates everything around me and makes everything a lot more simple.
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You're always under pressure, that's what life is about. That is what playing international cricket or being a professional sportsman is.
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An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
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I started playing frat parties at Cornell. I would just play four-hour shows, mostly cover songs. At first everybody would get a drink while I played my own songs, but that started to change, I liked playing music; I didn't like school. I transferred to NYU to be closer to home and to be closer to the music scene.
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I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.
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Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.
