I want to play football until my body says, ‘You can’t run anymore: you’re dead.’
I never wanted to wear skirts or shoes, makeup, nails, dresses, or even wear my hair a certain way. I always wanted to wear sneakers, stud earrings, hair in a ponytail, and play with the boys.
My dad taught me how to play tennis, and I owe that to him. But the better you get, the higher you climb, and the more lonely you get. I’ve had to sacrifice a lot of personal relationships, but that’s the choice I made.
How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well.
Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
I don’t try to make actors play crazy characters. I like where there’s a certain element of who they are and truth to their performances.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
‘Let the music play on’ would be my legacy.
I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I’d like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.
It’s not how you start the season, it’s how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that’s what you play for. You don’t play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.
You’ve got to want to play defence. Nobody really wants to play defence. It’s boring. It sucks. You don’t get the flashiness, the scores, the dunks. But you’ve got to have it.
To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.
I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story.
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I’d make one a week and finally I’d pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I’m trying to keep it down to one a season.
When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships – they watch games because their husbands watch. They’re interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it’s a way to spend time with family.
At the end of the day, it’s a game. You play the best that you can. You need to keep a smile. You need to be nice to others. Everybody’s trying hard.
I’m a technician. I don’t go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.
You play like you practice and practice how you play.
I liked ‘Scream of the Banshee’ because it was a real challenge. I thought, ‘How am I going to pull off this character?’ But, I also thought, ‘Oh, man, I’m going to go for it.’ He’s got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.
I don’t plan or schedule my career thinking first I will play a common man, then a police officer, then a superhero. I love good scripts, and I don’t care if I play the main part in it or not. I want to be a part of good films. That’s my dream… ‘Jacobinte Swargarajyam’ was that film for me.
Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
The first thing you get from the humanities, when they’re well taught, is critical thinking. Philosophy in particular can play that role, not just in universities but in schools as well.
I’ve been asked a lot why didn’t ‘Ruined’ go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn’t find a home on Broadway.
When you play in a great club like Real Madrid, it’s hard to stay here.
I do really long DJ sets – I play for five or six hours sometimes – but the live shows are a bit more compact. The arch of how to tell a story, where the energy is, where you have peaks and drops, where things go up and things come down, that’s all being informed by DJ-ing.
You’re not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it’s important that I can show every aspect of them.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
I try to avoid all mistakes. I try to prepare my players and to put them in the best condition to play the game. If you discover a problem during the game, it is too late. You must anticipate and prepare.
When I played Candy Darling in ‘I Shot Andy Warhol,’ that was easy to play that part. They made me into a woman: I’m in heels; I’m waxed. I’m gonna find the femininity and lay on the bed and take the voice of an old movie star.
The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
When you’re confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn’t affect me. I got out in time.
I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.
I’ve seen up close what can happen when actors talk publicly about their relationships: their personal life gets dismantled. It’s a show business game, and it’s one game I won’t play.
Give me something interesting to play and I’m happy.
You can’t win if you don’t play as a unit.
When you play against people that’s better than you, you get better.
Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly.
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty’s sake and pulls it down to earth.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.
I’m just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.
Only a genius can play a fool.
I’ve really enjoyed playing this game. It’s a game that I try my best to enjoy to the fullest. Without pressure. Relaxed. And that helps me when I play.
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. That’s why I play. If I made it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
I do not try to play a role. I feel good being myself and saying what I think.
After my first knee operation, in January of ’65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent.
My generation put in a lot more hours playing football after school than kids today. These days, all the football these kids play, they play at their clubs, so the clubs need to work seriously on the basic skills.
As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders – not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.
One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn’t necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.
I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.
I like to play in the low 70’s. If it gets any hotter than that I’ll stay in the bar!
I play music all the time because silence freaks me out.
Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men’s movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.
Football is a game you play with your mind.
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
I would say, if you come out, they can’t take away how you play football. That was the thing for me: once I did come out, it’s not going to affect my diving. I can still perform, no matter what anybody else thinks of me. I’m judged for what I do in the diving pool.
I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.
