Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I’ve ever had.
Whenever I’m stressed out or having a bad day, the one thing that gets me happy or back into like a good place of mind is being on the golf course. I love being out there, especially really early in the morning getting the first tee time out and just playing by myself. It’s so peaceful.
I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
I make funny videos of me playing video games, and I share those moments.
I am enjoying playing English football. It is very beautiful. With every game I play, I feel more comfortable.
With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I’d play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It’s a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.
If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.
About three months after I had Kelly, I went and played in Canada. I felt great, I was ready to go and I was very energetic. But as soon as I started playing, I thought ‘no, too soon.’ I went back home and slept for two days.
My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I’ve played before.
I don’t think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: ‘Are you winding me up?’
I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.
I need to be playing well, be involved in the game, and taking matches by the scruff of the neck.
I don’t put myself on Jeff Beck’s level, but I can relate to him when he says he’d rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.
I started playing basketball so late, it just means that anything is possible.
There’s a lot of guys who are drafted and end up not playing in the NBA. They get their money for their first whatever years and end up going overseas or something like that.
But in those days – in the mid-’50s, early ’60s – there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn’t full time.
My mom and dad divorced when I was 8 years old, but my Dad never left my life. We would go over there on weekends and he’d be playing his guitar, listening to Bobby Blue Bland and B. B. King and KBLX radio while he was out in the garage painting custom cars.
Life isn’t fair. It’s true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.
I just love playing guitar, so that’s what I’m going to do.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.
People don’t realize all the stuff I gave up growing up. I could have gone to parties and had fun at adventure parks with friends on weekends and things like that. But I went out and worked my butt off for eight hours playing golf.
Most of our players come from the Championship; Chelsea can get more or less anyone from around the world. Some clubs in this division have owners who say it doesn’t matter what they spend. I don’t know what happened to Financial Fair Play but it didn’t exactly level the playing field.
I’d be plenty happy if I could keep playing scientists and cops for the rest of my career.
This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, ‘What are you doing this Saturday?’ and they’ll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, ‘Man, I’m really into remote-controlled steamboats.’
Listening to my dad playing guitar along to ‘Sleepwalk’ by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
Growing up, I’d just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
Age isn’t a barrier to playing the bass, and I’ve definitely improved over the years, although maybe I’m not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can’t imagine a life without a guitar.
I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We’d walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.
I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.
I spent the afternoon of Sunday 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.
I was playing first-team football at Cardiff at 16.
My restlessness leaves my mind racing as I try to wind down at the end of mandatory recovery day. It keeps me tossing after poor performances. And if I played well, well… playing well makes me itch to play better; there is always room for improvement.
I don’t mind playing absolute bastards… I just don’t want to play the grouch.
When you’re playing, it’s important to focus 100 per cent on what you’re doing.
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
My main focus is playing football and giving it all I got. I’m trying to go out there and make plays and help my team win.
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
I’m just more into playing golf. It’s a great thing.
I was 12 years fittin’ to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. I’ve been rich since I was 14. My son has been a millionaire since he was 12, so that’s just the life. We’ve been playing with money since young.
My dad is Polish. My mom is Moroccan, and I grew up around all kinds of different languages, and I love playing with it, and I love picking up new melodies.
Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field – no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.
Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it’s kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played – skiing, baseball, fishing – there is no greater example than golf, because you’re playing against yourself and nature.
I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.
When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we’ve taken on a role or we’re acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.
I was into playing American music, especially the blues.
What I like to do when I get to a new place is buy local music early on and listen to it while we’re driving around. I think it helps explain and illuminate the culture of where you are if local music is playing.
As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that’s intangible, and while it’s happening, it’s great. But then when it’s done, there’s really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.
I miss being able to play my instruments – I’m too much of a physical wreck these days. Playing the vibraphone gives me backache, leg ache, and everything-else ache, and the asthma means I no longer have enough puff to play harmonica.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
If you’re sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that’s entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it’s the storytelling. That’s why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
I train all week just to play for 90 minutes. I love playing games, and so during those 90 minutes, it’s always 100 per cent.
Basically, radio hasn’t changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues – communicating with an audience.
There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.
My brother was a huge Tim Kerr fan. He loved the way Kerr would power to the net, and he related to that playing style.
