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

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I’ve seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they’re told they are supposed...

I grew up playing ‘Mortal Kombat’ as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as a kid as well.

I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn’t enough as your body becomes stiff....

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There’s no time for proper coaching; they’re just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

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.

The group-effort sound in recording of ‘Sea Lion’ is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There’s a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same...

As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn’t compose in the early...

So I always figured I’d still be playing at this age.

I’m really excited about the revolution that is young people actually playing young people on Broadway.

I was playing a relatively high level of hockey, and I thought that’s what I wanted to do. But I had my first movie audition, and I was hooked.

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.

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

It’s funny, because I’ve never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in ‘American Gangster,’ I’m playing an Italian. I’ve always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don’t think you...

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed...

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

What do I have to cheat for? I’ve always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for?

I don’t want to know about the lives of other actors and I don’t want people to know too much about me. If we don’t know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves...

My son now is 22 months old, he’s been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He’s been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he’s...

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.

I wrote ‘Lakeside View Apartment Suites’ with Roman in my arms. He was about a month old. I was playing left-handed and finally handed him over. On the demo of it, you can hear him...

I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that particular area. So, I always wondered how I would have turned...

I think The Hulk really hit a chord with me, I love the Hulk. But, I never dreamt I’d be playing Doctor Doom.

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.

I don’t think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity – it is not a level playing field.

Balling is balling; it is all just basketball for me and I’m used to playing both games, so it really does not matter if it is international style, American style; it does not matter at...

When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.

I don’t want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.

I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me.

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can’t, because if I get injured, I’ll impair whatever film I’m working on.

The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye’s stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else?...

I think, as an actor, and particularly if you are playing the lead in something, you have to view yourself as the head of department for the cast. All of the other departments are accountable...

Whoever said that love hurts was wrong. Love is excruciating, especially when you can feel it slipping through your fingers and there is nothing you can do about it. Like someone was playing tug-of-war with...

Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don’t think they understand what...

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can’t count it.

Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.

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...

My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?

‘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...

There’s a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.

I think that I’ve always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there’s a lot of room for discovery in these characters, and that’s something I...

Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That’s the beautiful thing, man, we’re actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.

Dads. Do you honestly expect anybody to believe that you can’t find 20 minutes to step away from your computer or turn off the television to play with your child? It has to happen every...

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you’re playing.

The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it’s very hard for people like that – people like me – to open up. But playing it safe means you...