I enjoy coming to the ballpark every day. I don't go to work. I come here to play.
I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.
Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond that, and kind of went wherever I wanted to go.
Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
Japan should get more involved in mediating disputes between countries and seek to play the role of a peace broker. To make this possible, we must train people so they have a solid understanding of international politics and great negotiation skills.
Don't stint on foreplay - or afterplay. Be inventive!
I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
The success I had as a player, or the career I had as a player, is often based on the guys you play beside, the guys you play with. Playing on the offensive line, you're only as good as your weakest guy up front. I was blessed to play with a lot of guys for a long time.
You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.
I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.
A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment.
My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.
I played Futebol de Salão for many years and it helped me to become the player I am today. There you don't have time to think, you are always tightly marked and you develop a sense for performing in small spaces.
Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.
In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.
The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and jails for the people who break them ... It does not allow for the health of our families, the quality of thier education, or the joy of their play.
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
You don't just play a part. You've got to earn the right to play it.
Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.
