One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas – where it’s a beautiful theater – is that unlike other places, even many other nice venues, I can do a set and lighting cues, I can put on a real show. I can dress up, wear a tux.

You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn’t want to run it into the ground.

I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you’re playing a scene, you’re not making choices; you’re just intuitive.

When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses – which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character.

I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I’m a tomboy at heart, too.

It’s like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there’s something there that’s really valuable. That’s the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.

And so the game went on in this manner, a throng of children playing keep-away from a bowling ball tossed back and forth between two plump ogres. The air filled with shrieks and cheers and shouts of laughter as daring players thrilled at the sport. That is, all but the few poor souls knocked flat...

Shellac was asked to do a recreation of our first album, but we’ve always been a band that improvised our sets. That’s critical to the way that we function on stage. Whatever the mood takes us on stage can vary from night to night with what you feel like playing.

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing – doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

We’re just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we’re having a lot of fun.

When Phish broke up, I made some comment about how I’m not gonna go around playing ‘You Enjoy Myself’ for the rest of my life.

Jerry Bruckheimer is the most hands-on producer that I’ve worked with. Jerry’s very involved in the music, and he’s such a fan of film. When you watch him playing back the cues to the picture, he’s like a kid in a candy store.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don’t use it, so I haven’t been playing guitar too much lately.

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

I’m very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers.

With videos, I find I’m better off if I’m playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

October, that’s when they pay off for playing ball.

If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you’re not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.

I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so...

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture – it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that...

‘Badmaash Company’ and ‘Delhi Belly’ was about friends, and I was part of the gang. And yes, they did have stars playing the lead! You do need a star to sell a film; and playing the second lead doesn’t bother me.

I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.

We’ve been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we’ve been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we’ve been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

I don’t know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It’s a dream.

We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

I’ve always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That’s how I got from there to here.

I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.

My back has been compressed and operated on, my feet have been surgically cut up, and I have a knee that’s just going wacky. So I do my own driving, and I ski and skate. I’m playing hockey again. Anything that immobilizes my feet I’m OK with.

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn’t really liking it.

I don’t spend a lot of time watching my performances after the fact. I suck at playing video games, but I’m a fan of the creativity, the brilliance, and the possibility of the industry.

I don’t really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I’m playing. I’m more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they’re doing in a certain scene.

I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.

I really do not think about ‘Oh, right now I have to defend those points and this title.’ I just really want to enjoy playing on the court, in front of the fans.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

I see a young man playing ‘Plaisir d’Amour’ on guitar. I knew I didn’t want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven’s fifth, because I love that.

People ask what it’s like playing Prince Charming, but it’s not something you really think about when you go to work.

I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It’s such a big country. I’ve always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I’m in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

I love working on films and I’d love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, ‘Would you like ‘Human Target’ to continue to be picked up?’ The answer is ‘Absolutely!’ I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it’s going.

After months of playing air guitar to ‘Free Bird’, what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of ‘Star Spangled Banner’ and ‘Purple Haze.’ My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, ‘I’m going to get a guitar.’

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn’t!

I’ve probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I’ve gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.