Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

When you’re performing, you’re playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I...

The blame game is already a lost game, so don’t attempt dressing up to play it! Blames create no change; winners don’t apportion blames!

Playing with friends is a victory.

I’m not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing – that’s just one facet of my life.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

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...

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 enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it’s raining, it’s terribly cold, I’m wet and I’m being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in...

I’m almost tempted, when I’m playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and...

In 1972 through ’74, right before we hit it big, we were hauling our own equipment into the club and setting up and playing for, I don’t know, a hundred bucks a night.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn’t think he could do.

I’m playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition—that’s what I’ve always wanted.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I came to the United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I’d become famous...

Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every...

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren’t playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I’d still be doing it because that’s what I want to do. I...

Part of an actor’s job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

Robert Englund’s done an amazing job over the years playing Freddy. Everybody that’s a fan of ‘Nightmare’ loves Robert and you know so that’s a challenge when you’ve got to step in a big man’s...

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

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.

Even if I’m playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

I’m to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I’m playing for the guys in that huddle. I’m playing for the guys in that locker room.

People have asked me about playing outsiders. I don’t consider myself an outsider. Maybe that’s why I’m interested in that. I’m not really sure.

I love the role I’m playing in ‘Conan.’ I’m enjoying making the film tremendously. It’s very physically demanding. You know, Conan is 28 years younger than me and a big dude, so I have to...

I’ve been playing the Wolfenstein games since I was a kid, and feel that their outlandish sensibility has deeply influenced my own writing and directing throughout my career.

I’ve been playing golf as long as I’ve been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

I like playing a guy who wears pants as opposed to shorts.

With ‘Sherry,’ we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing one of our songs, you knew who it was immediately. But I didn’t...

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn’t done the Stand.

I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20’s playing Frank’s music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It’s just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of...

I was certainly never conscious of ‘playing the woman.’ I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a...

If studies come out and show that playing football is detrimental to your health for the long term, even for the short term, I think that’s up to the players then to make the decision...

Onstage, even though you’re here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they’re listening. That informs a lot.

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.

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

I love Coldplay. The lights, and the sound quality They really play their instruments. Sometimes, during the show, they’ll make a mistake and stop. I think they do it intentionally just to show you they’re...

This is a dream from when I was kid. I’m playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody’s dream is to play the final of a Grand Slam.

I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed...

If you don’t like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don’t like baseball.

Essentially, I’m untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I’m going to be playing.