“I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.” FeelsYearsDifferentEndsPlayActorsBitsSoundFiveFourSickSillyMusclesFive YearsDrainedCobwebs Author:Matthew Macfadyen
“I don't think I suffered with depression, I don't think I'm a depressed type of person - I just think I suffered a depression to do with snooker, and I just couldn't handle it. I could go out and play, but take me out of there and I couldn't do life. It was a nightmare, my life just felt like a bit of a nightmare.” ThinkingPersonsPlayFeltBitsTypeHandleNightmareTake MeSnooker Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan
“I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.” LittlesDifferentPlayJobsFunBitsRolesLittle Bit Author:Ashley Rickards
“I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.” DonePlayMomentsBitsMinutesMissingLike YouTrainIntermission Author:Lily Rabe
“You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.” PeopleKnowsPlayPastBitsWatchesPlayerBiggerMalesRelateWatch Me Author:Samantha Stosur
“So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.” ThinkingKnowsTryingLooksLittlesPlayFilmFeltBitsActingCareersKnow HowLittle BitManageShellsShocked Author:Lea Thompson
“If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.” IfsFeelsDonePlayBitsStageLike YouWeightPassingPassingsInstanceTorchesStaggeringPassing It Author:Samuel West
“I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.” IfsWantFeelsBelieveSometimesHardPlayWholeAbleBitsCreatingGuitarHonestlyToneSpectrumLaid Back Author:Angus Young
“It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.” HeartLittlesPlayWould BeFunBitsRecordsNiceLittle BitReally Nice Author:Ryan Adams
“I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.” FeelsLittlesPersonsMadeI CanEnoughPlayCharacterGuyOpportunityGivenBitsActingBoysLittle BitGood EnoughBad GuysGood PersonPosters Author:Gucci Mane
“I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.” DifferentPlayBitsRolesStyleNew YorkDressesLondonParis Author:Rachel Zoe
“There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.” LittlesTwoPlayFactsJobsBitsSidesDoorsLittle BitShakesTwo SidesShake It Up Author:Matthew Perry
“Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.” LittlesPlayBitsRocksHugeBandLittle BitGunRoseQueensRock BandsManiaAerosmithGuns N RosesBon Jovi Author:PSY
“I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin. If it takes twenty years, you might as well forget about it!” IfsThinkingYearsWellsDoeSaidPlayMightBitsWhiteForgetJudgingTwentiesPhotographerEightNinePianoMinorsViolinExaggerationNine Years Author:Paul Strand
“Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.” I CanPlaySongBitsRocksCoupleMusicianPicksGuitarSingersRock And Roll Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson
“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'” IfsHumansTwoIdeasPlayWholeMomentsRememberActorsBitsHoursAudienceImagineFrontsPleaseNormalMajorsToughCookingResponseMythOpeningProtectedAirportsStirringOnionsCarrotsHaresChopping Author:Bill Nighy
“Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.” PlayMotherBitsPeculiarCastingHappy Endings Author:Brett Somers
“I play David Hasselhoff's secretary and she gets around a bit - it's quite a role. I end up in bed with Adam Sandler, It's so surreal it's hysterical . . I'm so excited. This is the biggest thing I have ever done, there's no comparison.” EndsDonePlayBitsRolesBedExcitedComparisonAdamSecretarySurrealHysterical Author:Sophie Monk
“Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time.” KnowsLoveMindWellsLittlesLongPlayMightTodayWantedLastsBitsLove YouTearsSeriousMonthsOughtTerribleLittle BitArgumentVacationTime Love Author:Walter Cronkite
“I never learned to play properly either, I was a little bit too lazy for that, but as long I could express myself in a way that had sound, I was happy.” WayLittlesLongPlayBitsSoundLittle BitLazy Author:Tove Styrke
“I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.” ArtPlayBigsGuyBitsCuttingTeamCollegeMajorsBaseballTheaterNerdOther GuysArt HistoryJocksBaseball Team Author:Charlie Day
“My dog didn't like me very much. My first dog, Dmitri, was a poodle. I used to think Dmitri was something I could play with and ride. I tried to ride a poodle. And then he bit me.” ThinkingFirstsPlayUsedBitsDogLike MeMy DogPoodles Author:Jennifer Aniston
“The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.” PeopleLittlesPlayShowsStuffBitsHoursChurchEmotionAudienceCryCoupleLittle BitAngelIntenseInteractionSecularTheatrical Author:Tom DeLonge
“Playing a character that allows me to play around with some of the feelings I have inside of myself and explore them - and maybe put them to rest a little bit, or at least come to terms with them - feels successful to me. I think it's about believing in what you do.” ThinkingFeelsBelieveLittlesPlayCharacterFeelingsBitsTermSuccessfulLittle Bit Author:Channing Tatum
“I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.” IfsNeedsPlayBitsGuitarFishingJam Author:Robbie Robertson
“Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.” PlayBitsInstrumentsFingersDrunkPianoPercussion Author:Charles Bukowski
“I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who's been a father would be able to act.” NeedsHas BeensPlayWould BeAbleOrderActorsFatherBitsAccess Author:Bill Nighy
“When I played football was somewhat taboo for a girl. Today it's not as much of a problem. Not all girls want to play football but it's not a case of 'Oh my god she plays football, that's a bit odd.' It's a lot more accepted now.” WantPlayProblemTodayGirlBitsCasesFootballAcceptedOddTaboo Author:Hope Powell
“Honestly, just waking up every morning with headaches is tough, to know that I can't play tonight or I can't run tonight. Once the headaches started going away a little bit, I knew I had a chance.” KnowsLittlesI CanPlayRunningBitsChanceMorningLittle BitToughWake UpHonestlyTonightGoing AwayWakingEvery MorningHeadacheWaking Up Every Morning Author:Alecko Eskandarian
“My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years.” KnowsFeelsYearsLittlesLongI CanPlayFeelingsBodyBitsSportsShapesLittle BitConcernYears AgoGood ThingsLegsGet Back Author:Mario Lemieux
“It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's less energy. It's just very dry and dead. People start to feel like they're watching a movie. The environment when they walk into it, it's not standing room only, smoking and drinking and rock 'n' roll. So it's a little bit dangerous to do that.” PeopleFeelsLittlesHardPlayEnergyBitsWalksRoomsEnvironmentRocksDangerousLittle BitStandingTheaterDown AndDrinkingDrySmokingRock N RollComplacentDead PeopleSmoking And Drinking Author:Jack White
“I've lived a little bit and traveled the world and experienced a lot of things that I can play any role, and I think I can get into stuff that people never thought I would ever do because of my experiences and growth as a person.” PeopleThinkingWorldLittlesPersonsI CanPlayStuffBitsGrowthRolesLittle BitTraveled Author:Chris Tucker
“I can play anywhere on the park. Im a bit like that in bed, too” I CanPlayBitsBedParks Author:Steven Gerrard