When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
‐‐ Robert Wilson
When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?
‐‐ Billy Eckstine
When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.
‐‐ Rachel McAdams
When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.
‐‐ Amanda Seyfried
When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman
When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.
‐‐ Regina Spektor
When you're playing the best player in the world, you've got to play well.
‐‐ Serena Williams
When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.
‐‐ Patrick Wilson
When you're playing the part of a saxophone or a trumpet player, both of which I have done, it would be nice to be able to play like John Coltrane, but you can't. Your job is to do something else. And I'm not sure what it is, but I don't think I'd be acting Niels Bohr any better if I went and studied physics for five years.
‐‐ Stephen Rea
When you're playing the same character for a decade it's natural that there are moments when you want to try something new.
‐‐ David Schwimmer
When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.
‐‐ Jonathan Cain
When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.
‐‐ Tommy Lee
When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.
‐‐ Pharrell Williams
When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.
‐‐ Adam Rapp
When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.
‐‐ Lee Trevino
When you're portraying a tough situation, you have to show some of the things in there.
‐‐ Juan Antonio Bayona
When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.
‐‐ Bel Powley
When you're pregnant, things - at least for me - get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.
‐‐ Kelli O'Hara
When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.
‐‐ Jenna McCarthy
When you're pregnant you just want to be comfortable - but I wear more or less the same as I do when I'm not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I'll want the floaty dresses!
‐‐ Alessandra Ambrosio
When you're promoting a film it's really interesting trying to gauge what people think about it.
‐‐ Guy Pearce
When you're providing emergency aid, you're fighting hunger; you're filling stomachs.
‐‐ Ertharin Cousin
When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.
‐‐ Tilman J. Fertitta
When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.
‐‐ Zendaya
When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
‐‐ Vanessa Hudgens
When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada.
‐‐ Ted Cruz
When you're raising a little kid, you tell that kid to go after their goals and their dreams. And you tell them to work as hard as anybody.
‐‐ Romeo Miller
When you're reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter.
‐‐ Lisa Randall
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
‐‐ Clifton Fadiman
When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.
‐‐ David Nicholls
When you're reading, like, a character's thoughts, or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me, that's what the whole point of fiction is.
‐‐ Joe Meno
When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!
‐‐ Emile Hirsch
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.
‐‐ Diana Gabaldon
When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
‐‐ Ian Somerhalder
When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.
‐‐ Annet Mahendru
When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.
‐‐ Rebecca Ferguson
When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.
‐‐ Ritchie Blackmore
When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.
‐‐ Alison Mosshart
When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
‐‐ Dave Grohl
When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.
‐‐ Nadine Velazquez
When you're releasing an album, you never know how it's going to go. You never know how a critic is going to receive it or how much it's going to sell.
‐‐ John Legend
When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.
‐‐ Kathleen Kennedy
When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.
‐‐ Vijender Singh
When you're researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you're researching something for an article for 'The New York Times.'
‐‐ Peter Landesman
When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
‐‐ Stevie Nicks
When you're rich you don't write checks.
‐‐ Randy Moss
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
‐‐ Bill Shoemaker
When you're riding with your mom, and you're a kid, you'd listen to 'Dear Mama' and the radio friendly records. I used to sneak and listen to Too $hort.
‐‐ Nayvadius Cash
When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.
‐‐ Shaquille O'Neal