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• There’s something about the rawness of the live thing, there’s no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It’s exciting, it’s about the performance.

  Chad Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Playing, Rhythm

• My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.

  Andy Serkis

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Acting, Playing

• More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it’s where my generation of kids get stories from.

  Andy Serkis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Kids, Playing

• When I first started playing football, a headache was called a ‘headache.’ And now it’s called ‘a concussion.’

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Football, Playing, Started

• By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

  Nate Silver

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Playing, Thought, Learning

• One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you’re allowed to fail.

  David Byrne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Playing

• My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I’ve never lost a match.

  Arlen Specter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Winning, Lost, Playing, Definition

• We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it’s dirty and dangerous.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Children, Nature, Society

  Tags in Playing

• Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

  Andrew Bird

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Making, Playing

• Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it’s just not.

  Rod Stewart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Playing, Certainly

• Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.

  Ian McEwan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Playing, Idea, Giants

• I love playing sport.

  Damian Lewis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Playing

• I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you’re playing.

  Ryan Gosling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Playing, Apply

• I’ve never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Boring, Playing, Interested

• I’m certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Still, Playing

• Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that’s just not going to happen in my lifetime.

  John Mayer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Happen, Playing

• I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

  David Ginola

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Playing

• I just love playing good guys.

  Clive Owen

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Good, Playing

• I consider the piano my ‘main’ instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

  Ian MacKaye

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Instrument, Playing, Remember

• As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.

  Cobi N'Gai Jones

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Importance, Playing, Career