Quotes of Playing - somelinesforyou

“ I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit. ”

- John Hurt

“ Never get caught acting. ”

- Lillian Gish

“ Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. ”

- William Burroughs

“ I was playing with a soccer team in Spain until I broke my foot-badly. That's when I started seriously getting into acting. ”

- Antonio Banderas

“ I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared. ”

- Ursula Andress

“ This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew. ”

- Philip Massinger

“ This many-headed monster. ”

- Philip Massinger

“ Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ We're all playing melody against each other. our aim is to get so far away from the original line that your playing something that's never been heard before. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. ”

- B. B. King

“ Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. ”

- Anonymous

“ Playing safe is only playing. ”

- Chuck Olson

“ They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me. ”

- Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson

“ We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ”

- Unknown

“ I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world. ”

- Gloria Anzaldúa

“ You don't stop playing when you get old, you get old when you stop playing. ”

- Unknown

“ While Richard was listening to music in the basement, I was out playing baseball and football, and playing with my machine gun! I was very tomboyish, quite a character, I hear! ”

- Karen Carpenter

“ I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale. ”

- Kim Cattrall

“ I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve. ”

- Bill Dixon

“ There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all these different layers. I prefer playing Lionel because he's a human being. ”

- John Glover

“ Although my parents were playing jazz for me when I was a kid, I didn't pay much attention until I saw someone my age improvising, playing jazz. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ Imagining playing the guitar is a slightly looser thing than playing it. You can hear more things sometimes. The fingers of your imagination aren't quite as hidebound as your real fingers. ”

- Richard Thompson

“ You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself. ”

- Jack Warner

“ There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity. ”

- Amy Weber

“ I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting. ”

- Anna Chlumsky

“ I have a special place for Ray Brown's playing because his approach to the instrument was the thing that inspired me initially. I feel that that is at the bottom of my playing and that that is the fundamental influence that I have on my playing. He kind of holds a special place for me. ”

- Dave Holland

“ The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. ”

- Andre Malraux

“ If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one. ”

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

“ Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ”

- Josh Billings

“ I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ”

- G.K. Chesterton
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