Playing Quotes
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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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The women I'm attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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No person and no character is beyond redemption, ultimately. That's the great thing about playing a character that has kind of a dark side; there's room to explore the opposite.
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Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.
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I'll just have to weigh it up and if I'm still playing well, training hard and enjoying my footy, then who knows.
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Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had...
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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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I think playing the way I played, and knowing the game the way I know it, I think I'm going to have a better idea as to what the mindset of each player was.
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When you're playing, every ball seems like the biggest event. When you're sitting back, you can see the overall picture better.
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I'm looking forward to playing against LeBron.
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I've never been one for widdly woos and widdly wah wahs, so I haven't had the desire to learn the more technical aspects of playing. Just write better riffs, I suppose.
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Music is more Ray J. When you act, you're playing a different person. I like the music end, basically because it's me.
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Actually, it's pretty enjoyable. Playing in a new place every year you get to experience something new, and in this game you definitely don't want to go back to where you were the year before.
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It's always a special feeling playing in this event. I am a big fan of TPC Boston. The Deutsche Bank Championship is as good as it gets on the PGA Tour.
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You realize that as much as you want to socialize with the people on the set, or you want to, after a day shooting, joke around or whatever. Somehow, with playing Jesus, this doesn't happen. You actually need to decompress and be on your own and prepare on your own. It never happened to me before.
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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.
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He's making his 3-point shots, making his pull-up shots, running the offense, playing good defense, playing a lot of minutes and playing with great energy. I couldn't be happier with the way he's playing. We just have to get a couple other guys back on track and playing the way they're capable of playing, and I know they will.
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I got that same feeling ... the same kind of energy that we created with the original Return to Forever, but now we are more experienced as musicians and as human beings ... so we are much more aware of what we are playing now.
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You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.
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We're happy with the way we're playing right now, but any time you can get a little bit of a break and get some rest to some guys and kind of lick your wounds, it's a good thing.
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I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you're not the most talented oboe player ever? The point is that if you don't love it, then it doesn't matter.
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Basketball has always been a sport I loved and grew up playing. For me, it was one of those things that... I guess baseball was just in my genes a little bit. I have a lot of cousins that played baseball. Basketball is not an easy sport - you definitely got to be gifted to play that game. I felt like I was pretty good at it, but my ability was better in baseball.
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I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.
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Normally the police like to turn up nice and early, preferably around 6 a.m., because not only are people liable to be actually at home but that early in the morning they’re rarely playing with a full deck. Today we were going in Sunday lunchtime because we weren’t looking for shock and awe but aiming for sinister and creepy instead.
