I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.
I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.
I love playing smart and tough and having funny lines.
I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.
There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.
I have so much fun with Matt LeBlanc that whether I love it or not really makes no difference to me because I just really have that much fun with him and playing with him. Being onstage with him is great.
The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.
Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.
The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!
We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.
It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!
I hung out with Merle Haggard on his bus, which sort of freaks me out. It was him and his wife. We played with Merle in Oklahoma City. I'm from Arizona, and we talked about Arizona, and he remembered playing for two dollars a day down there at a bar.
If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.
In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.
Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.
I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.
Yes I still enjoy playing him. He's the best person to play isn't he?
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.
When I played Tonto in 'The Lone Ranger' and was playing the older Tonto, I would just leave the makeup on and go to sleep because it was a four or five hour job; it was, from the waist up, all over me.
I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.
If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.
We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.
My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.
I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.
Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.
Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.
Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.
I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.
I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky.
