While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field.

When I was small, playing NBA Live, that’s how I knew everyone in the NBA. That’s how I learned about the players.

Maybe it’s because One Direction was just on ‘SNL,’ or because I’m playing The Wanted on my Top 40 show, but in terms of boy bands, we’re seeing this resurgence, and it’s happening, whether you...

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

Our country’s growing obsession with organized sports isn’t just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it’s just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it’s stunts.

Well, I don’t think most Americans are playing the super-PAC game. I think what you have is elites on both sides playing the super-PAC game.

I just love playing in major championships.

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.

Learn well and play well.

I’m a Baltimore guy. I’ve always loved Baltimore and always will love Baltimore, but baseball is baseball, and when you’re playing on the opposing team, you’re going to get booed.

You can’t judge a character that you’re playing, because then you’re fighting against doing what the character’s doing.

Playing a character who’s dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

I’m interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

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.

Shaq got into a scrap with one of my teammates, … and I got tired of everybody separating them, so I went over and said, ‘Why don’t you guys stop [messing around] and just fight?’...

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...