Top 1200 Playing Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.

Movie stars exaggerate certain things to let the audience know they're just playing a character, as if they're saying, "Look at me, I'm not really an old man, I'm just playing one." Or "I'm not really a homosexual, I'm just playing a gay character. Or an alcoholic. Or somebody who's mentally impaired." They often do it very successfully and win awards for it.

After I finished working on the movie, I went back into the show again playing Riff, so it was an incredible time because I loved playing Riff in the theater and, of course, I loved playing Bernardo in the film. We had such a really beautiful time. We knew we were working on something of quality.

When you're playing jazz, you have to somehow overcome that feeling of being intimidated because your aim is to portray that freedom in what you're playing.

You'd be playing in a pub in the afternoon. Then late at night, you'd be playing a club. You got into that habit: 'If we don't play, we don't eat.'

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Well, I'm also like 23 and playing 16. So maybe when I'm 30 I'll be playing characters in their early 20s. I don't know.

As long as I am playing and enjoying playing, then that is all that matters.

England is nice. I always said that if I was playing games for United consistently and playing well I'd have a chance of getting back in.

I love playing in the Garden. My dad used to tell me stories about playing here. So to see that crowd, it's crazy.

I don't want anyone to think I don't love playing for England because playing for your country is the greatest thing a cricketer can do.

When you have a way of playing or a mentality of playing, it's difficult to do something else.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Playing live is one thing. Playing under a microscope is another.

If they focus on me too often, somebody's going to be wide open. It's all about playing together and playing as a team.

I've been successful when I have kept things simple - playing cricketing shots that I'm blessed with or I am good at playing.

It's important that I'm always playing fresh and that I'm ready to go rather than just playing because I feel like I have to.

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

When I play, I'm playing for myself and I'm playing for my family too.

When I wasn't playing with Barbie dolls, I was always playing with different kinds of balls, and my dad said, let's try tennis.

When you're playing Marilyn Monroe, you have a responsibility to look and sound like her that you don't when you're playing people who weren't ever in the public eye.

When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy. Actually, I think you're more stymied playing the good guy than you are the bad guy. As the bad guy, you have no inhibitions. Nothing stops you from doing what it is you feel you have to do. You do it because it's what's required.

Playing with Neymar is completely different to playing against him.

If you're playing, or not playing, training is always good to keep you young.

I'm getting my confidence and momentum, and I'm playing free and playing loose.

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

It's definitely more fun playing a bad guy. It feels a lot better than playing one of the good guys.

I think it's so important when you're playing a character that you can't judge the person you're playing at all. It's a judgment-free zone. You have to just go for it.

Only knowing two hours before the game that you are playing is not a problem. You prepare as though you're playing. If you don't, that's the mistake.

You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

As far as playing playing festivals and everything, I feel like that's what I was born to do. I'm an entertainer, hopefully in the best sense.

It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes. Maybe we'll all play the same phrase out of nowhere. It happens very often with us.

Playing for the Bulls, playing for big organizations, like Boston, you're going to be judged from Day One. It's part of it. You signed up for it.

Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades.

If you are playing in the right conditions, there is always motivation to bowl fast. If you are playing in the wrong condition then you want to be a batsman.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I'd be the only disabled kid in the neighborhood playing football, and we're playing full contact, and I'd always manage to get open.

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

I started playing at six. I was at a school always playing football with my friends. But I was always bored at home. I asked my father if he could start me in a football team. He took me to a team called Rupel Boom, who were playing in the fourth division in Belgium, and I stayed there for four years.

I was told before that one of the hardest jumps to do, painlessly, is the one from playing clubs into playing arenas. I am completely aware of that now.

Playing with Paul Scholes is like playing with the light on.

I'm not playing for the All-Star Game, I'm playing to win games.

I went from almost not playing in the NBA to playing on a championship team.

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.

It's different playing in a studio than it is playing live, of course.

I feel I can concentrate a bit more on playing darts now people are just seeing an equal playing field.

Every young kid growing up playing football dreams of playing in those big famous stadiums.

Playing away is just as exciting as playing at home.

If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.

For me, playing is about playing with other people.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

For me, I just focus on playing, playing at a high level. And when you can't do that any longer, you've got to get off the train.

To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if you're playing with Michael C. Hall, what do you have to worry about?

Playing for England is a bonus, but playing for Liverpool is what I want to do.

Playing for the national team is not the same as playing for your club.

I started playing guitar when I was nine and just fell in love with that - I've been playing nonstop ever since.

There's a difference between playing hurt and playing injured.

We have to figure out how to do that, in terms of playing with that mindset of just not caring. Playing free in a structured manner.

I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a lot. But I don't like the term 'exercising.' I feel like with sport, you're playing games. But with exercise, you're literally just trying to stop yourself from dying too young. It's weird.