The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

You always see people coming back to the sport, and I’ve always thought, ‘Gosh, when you’re done playing, wouldn’t you just want to stay at home?’

Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music...

When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it’s Nashville, or it’s London, or I’m driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it’s like,...

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.

White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can’t do it.

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

My character on ‘I’m In the Band,’ Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That’s completely on the other end of the spectrum. There’s absolutely nothing like Derek any shape...

Marriage as a team means working and playing together toward a winning season.

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we’re actually playing in THE Kremlin!

People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set.

They say there are twelve steps to quitting something. But what if that something is playing with a slinky? Seems like you should be able to quit playing with a slinky using no steps.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it’s just like an untamed force… a different...

Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I’m doing and not get stagnant with how I approach...

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’m a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you’re a director, you’re the conductor of the orchestra, and when you’re an actor, you’re playing the violin. There’s a thrill...

It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it.

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and...

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.

When I was a little boy, I didn’t know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and I wanted to be just like my dad.

If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.

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,...

If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

Golf isn’t just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges – the...

I can’t believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football ’cause half of those eight or nine years I don’t even remember.

There’s some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it’s a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

There’s something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun!

If you look at a multi-player game, it’s the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that’s associated with it.

It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens – it was my dad’s team.

It’s kind of fun when you’re playing characters that aren’t quite on the up and up and people still like you.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

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...

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 definitely wouldn’t shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I’m a girl’s girl.

Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires.

Guitar playing isn’t really for everybody.

I love playing bass. It’s mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

I want to be a footballer – and that means playing on a Saturday afternoon.

My mother would say, ‘Why are you always playing alone?’ And I would say, ‘I’m not playin’, Ma. I’m fuckin’ serious!

That’s what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I’ve had my fill.

Dungy, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has long believed that he, his staff and players should be as devoted to family time as they are to playing time, as focused on giving to charities...

I’d be honored to be playing a Republican, although I’m not.

I didn’t play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It’s electric. But I don’t think I’m the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to...

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

I’m ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed – I can’t do it. I’m clueless.

Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It’s been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it’s going to up...

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn’t know that at first.