All Quotes

Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.
‐‐ Laura Carmichael

Playing a positive role on a network television show, it was great. I took it as a responsibility. Poncherello was supposed to be Poncherelli, and then when I got this part I said, 'You know what, this guy isn't going to be Italian-American, he's gonna be Hispanic American.' And they went with it.
‐‐ Erik Estrada

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.
‐‐ Akshay Kumar

Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.
‐‐ Kristanna Loken

Playing a room, it's a real dictator-type situation - you can really move the crowd the way you want to. In a festival, there's a sea of people, and it's harder to lock in on any one group.
‐‐ Pusha T

Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.
‐‐ Adam Levine

Playing a show is a monumental hassle. You've got to schlep all your heavy equipment into the van, then you've got to drive for five hours, then you have to schlep all the heavy equipment out of the van, onto the stage, set it up, do the sound check, hang around for three hours, then play the show, which is incredibly draining.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

Playing a sinner is very liberating!
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I'm doing and not get stagnant with how I approach every show, which is something I like.
‐‐ Jason Aldean

Playing a superhero was an acting challenge for me. It was fun.
‐‐ Masi Oka

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
‐‐ Neil Peart

Playing a villain in a comic show, there's a thin line that you have to be careful not to step over.
‐‐ Casper Crump

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.
‐‐ Robyn Hitchcock

Playing all of these games, getting to know everything about the NBA, you realize that you are your own business. You have business meetings to go to, signings to go to. Like, I'm only 20, but the stuff I'm doing the average 20-year-old isn't doing.
‐‐ Derrick Rose

Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner.
‐‐ Chad Smith

Playing an alien gave me plenty of scope, and I was able to develop it once I became a member of the team.
‐‐ Sarah Sutton

Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
‐‐ Lynda Barry

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.
‐‐ Graham Coxon

Playing Ann Landers is like channeling my mother. That combination of love and the enjoyment of life is my mother. And you find that combination in Ann Landers' letters.
‐‐ Mimi Kennedy

Playing at home in Mamelodi is always so special to me, and I cherish those moments dearly.
‐‐ Vusi Mahlasela

Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything.
‐‐ Matt Bomer

Playing Aung San Suu Kyi was a journey in itself. She represents many things for many people and for many reasons. Although I have played many important roles in my life, I can say that this role has been a journey of self-realisation.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

Playing bad is always more fun than playing good.
‐‐ Heather Locklear

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
‐‐ Pete Rose

Playing basketball all my life, I've collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It's pretty much all I wear.
‐‐ Stephen Curry

Playing basketball is definitely one of my favorite things to do.
‐‐ Common

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
‐‐ Duke Ellington

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.
‐‐ Kelli O'Hara

Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.
‐‐ Hans Matheson

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.
‐‐ Brittany Curran

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.
‐‐ Max von Sydow

Playing clubs is the ultimate - you see the faces; you hear the 'clicking' glasses - I love all that atmosphere and seeing people's mouths singing the words to the songs.
‐‐ Vonda Shepard

Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere.
‐‐ Mark Zupan

Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
‐‐ Abbie Cornish

Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
‐‐ Jack White

Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.
‐‐ Beyonce Knowles

Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
‐‐ Carice van Houten

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.
‐‐ Ron Moody

Playing football and being a tight end scoring points, it's awesome to see so many members throughout the United States join to play fantasy football, to expand the sport, to make the game more interesting while you're watching.
‐‐ Rob Gronkowski

Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport.
‐‐ Junior Seau

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.
‐‐ Bryce Harper

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.
‐‐ Dennis Bergkamp

Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.
‐‐ Alan Hansen

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.
‐‐ Gary Neville

Playing for Midland, that helped me get to Arkansas. It was really all I ever wanted to do.
‐‐ Andrew Benintendi

Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.
‐‐ Jerry Cantrell

Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.
‐‐ Don Baylor