I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.
I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.
With high fashion, it's a performance. You're trying to interpret a fantasy in a very physical way, and you really are playing a character. I've played men, dead people, famous people, historical icons, and it's no mean feat. It's quite an insular experience even though the crowd is in front of you and there's an expectation.
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend of mine, and I sang and played the guitar on it.
I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.
Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.
When I was a kid, mostly I played in a ditch that didn't have much water in it. It was for drainage purposes. There was not a lot trouble to get into in that ditch. It was ditch activities like catching crawdads and minnows.
You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
The first tournament I ever played, I won. I was six years old.
Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.'
I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.
I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.
I remember, playing in college especially, I cried in almost every game I played. I just felt so much stress and pressure that I was letting everyone down if I didn't score a goal or win the game. I carried that weight with me into every game.
In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.
Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.
The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
I've played guitar in so many different styles, and I want to revisit them all.
I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.
The game of basketball is not played with throwing punches, throwing elbows.
When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made music and played at the party instead.
Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
I wouldn't be able to tackle a character like Rosalee on 'Underground' without having tackled the many characters I've played before.
Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get letters from young gay and lesbian and trans-gendered kids saying, 'I didn't kill myself because of Buffy'.
Of course I would have liked to have played at the World Cup, but I achieved so much in my career as a footballer that I can't have any complaints.
I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
I have played cricket on my own terms.
