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Quotes About Playing

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.
~ Tom Holland
I liked being home playing in front of my people, but I just did not like the situation because I was playing shooting guard, and that is not my position. I would play it if someone like Rip got hurt, but to do it for an entire season, that is not my position. I got it done when I was asked to do. But inside, I know that is not me.
~ Chauncey Billups
Every goalkeeper has a different way of playing. Some will take risks to help the team - coming for high balls, being prepared to be attacked in the box knowing there is not much protection from the referees - but that might mean they make more mistakes. Some try to be safer to avoid those situations, but it does not help the team.
~ Loris Karius
I love playing real characters... if they're not around anymore it's helpful because you won't get sued! But there's so much research involved and I love that part of the process.
~ Andy Serkis
I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.
~ Sara Paxton
I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.
~ Lita Ford
Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.
~ Mandy Patinkin
There's no question that I love playing in Texas. I love the fans. I love everything about Texas.
~ Mark Teixeira
I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.
~ Melissa McCarthy
it was a pretty good insight into how unattractive science can get when you're playing at a certain level.
~ Bill Bryson
Just then, a tinkling, and the flock of black and gray aristocratic goats rounded the wall of the corral with the little leprechaun of a blue-eyed milkman, in patched faded dungarees, rope sandals, and sombrero; he looked happy and pleasant; let us come into corral; new world; his world. Goats at home in bare, neat yard, drank out of water pails; black and white spotted kid. Two goats butted; one rising on hillock as if strung up from neck, poised, hung, butting down on other; playing.
~ Sylvia Plath
I love the game and everything that goes with actually playing. What I don't like so much are the interviews, the controversy, and all the external stuff.
~ Gabriel Batistuta
My family are very happy that I'm playing with Ireland. It's my dad's side, and he's really, really proud. He wants me to play for Ireland, and I'm really happy to play for Ireland.
~ Declan Rice
I love playing in Ireland and I've had great support here, like I get everywhere.
~ Jimmy White
My kids go to school in Italy and after my playing career is over I want to spend time with my family.
~ Javier Zanetti
I don't plan on writing biographies of great sports stars who are still playing ball. But I did write one on Jackie Robinson, who was playing ball in the 20th century.
~ David A. Adler
It is good to make my comeback in Jamaica after not playing for so long.
~ Fidel Edwards
I feel like I have great support here. Many Japanese comes. Fans are very loud. Helps me. So, yeah, I always enjoy playing New York.
~ Kei Nishikori
The main reason I have joined Everton is not to try to help my England ambitions - that will come if I am playing consistently well for Everton.
~ Gareth Barry
Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.
~ Frank Warren
The exam markers must have been somewhat bewildered to be told that when the Armada appeared, Francis Drake was playing with his balls.
~ Frederick Forsyth
I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'
~ Angus Young
I'm confident about going out there and playing - playing with emotion, screaming and yelling.
~ Grayson Allen