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Quotes About Playing

I remember when Heath Ledger talked about playing the Joker... I always used to look out of the side of my eye, going, 'Yeah, actors.' But there really is a darkness when you are playing someone psychotic - you have to go there mentally.
~ Cuba Gooding, Jr.
The media talks a lot. The media, they don't know. They are not in the team, they are not training with me, they are not playing with me, but they are talking a lot about me in Europe.
~ Marko Arnautovic
If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth.
~ Richard Kadrey
From the back came an unearthly, satisfied chuckle. All I could see in the rearview mirror was a dark shadow with red goat-slitted eyes. Fear slithered through me. Shit, I have a demon in my backseat. What in hell am I playing with? "Good witch," Al said, his voice coming from nothing, and I stifled a shudder. "You're starting to understand.
~ Kim Harrison
So much for playing nice.Tired, I let my eyes shut while they argued, hoping I didn't die in the interim and make the problem moot. I wasn't ever going to get my water. Ever.
~ Kim Harrison
Only when he was conducting an autopsy could he forget the death of his beloved son. Ironically, playing with dead bodies released him from the death that had touched him.
~ Koji Suzuki
The bilateral relationship is unshakable, but playing politics with that relationship could blunt Secretary Kerry's enthusiasm for being Israel's primary defender.
~ Ron Dermer
I want to keep playing at the kind of level where I'll get respect from everybody.
~ Pau Gasol
I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.
~ Lara Pulver
I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
~ Dee Dee Ramone
She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who'd been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.
~ Dennis Lehane
The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
You should be ashamed of yourself," Mrs. Laughlin said fiercely. "Playing with an old woman's feelings like that. And dragging the boys into whatever you were doing in Toby's wing? It's cruel is what it is.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
~ Erica Jong
But when I turn up the volume on the TV no laugh track is playing.
~ Amber Tamblyn
So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.
~ Jose Mourinho
I used to be really stressed about that: like, how do I follow up on 'Minecraft,' because I have this weird expectation to. But after a while, what I realized I enjoy doing is prototyping and playing with ideas.
~ Markus Persson
It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in - that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
~ Bam Margera
I'll tell you my legacy: I wasn't welcome. I was too small. I couldn't play the game the way they wanted me to play the game. Sound like an uneven game to me. Put me on a level playing field, and I'll show you.
~ Ben Wallace
It's exciting to originate Jessica Jones. There's obviously more freedom in that versus playing a well known character.
~ Krysten Ritter
It was the case that I wanted to go. Not because I don't like West Ham, but because I need to have minutes on the pitch.
~ Javier Hernandez
It's a dream to play for England, so if I'm selected, I'd look forward to playing. But it's down to the powers above me.
~ Jack Wilshere
The confidence and the comfort level just comes with playing a lot and practicing. Obviously, the more you practice, the more you play, the more comfortable you get.
~ Devlin Hodges
I much prefer playing in the centre of the park; that's where I feel comfortable.
~ Aaron Ramsey