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"Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house."

Gavin Rossdale, British Musician

"We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that."

Jeff Ament, American Musician

"When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it."

William Kraft, American Musician

"I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano."

Debbie Gibson, American Musician

Play, Practice, Want, Will

"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."

Christopher Reeve, American Actor

"After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it."

Larry Hagman, American Actor

"I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play."

James Rado, American Actor

"I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes."

Brittany Murphy, American Actress

"The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation."

Brian Eno, British Musician

"I always tried to play my hunches."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

"We'll probably have to play the perfect game."

Tim Buckley, American Musician

"Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff."

Benmont Tench, American Musician

"I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it."

Mary-Kate Olsen, American Actress

"I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible."

Beau Bridges, American Actor

"Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play."

Robert Englund, American Actor

"If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes."

Pat Mastelotto, American Musician

Play, Skin, Wood

"I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl."

Hope Davis, American Actress

"We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song."

Charlie Byrd, American Musician

"I play a huge variety of roles."

Casper Van Dien, American Actor

"The more you understand me, the less characters I can play."

Skeet Ulrich, American Actor

"I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some."

Boris Spassky, Russian Celebrity

"No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard."

Mary Tyler Moore, American Actress

"Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway."

Peter Tork, American Musician

Play, Want, World

"I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me."

Hugh Leonard, Irish Dramatist

"You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it."

Navjot Singh Sidhu, Indian Entertainer

"I do play drums when I'm on tour."

Norman Wisdom, English Comedian

"I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming."

Roger Moore, English Actor

"If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage."

Ritchie Blackmore, English Musician

"In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it."

Camryn Manheim, American Actress

"As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role."

Loni Anderson, American Actress

"I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear."

Kevin Richardson, American Musician

"The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant."

Roy Wood, English Musician

"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."

August Wilson, American Playwright

"I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty."

Jules Shear, American Musician

"There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it."

Heather Matarazzo, American Actress

"Oh, and Scott, get Mark to play me. He's the most talented one anyway."

Mark McKinney, Canadian Comedian

"Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!"

Caroline Corr, Irish Musician

"You don't have to live the blues to play the blues."

Herbie Mann, American Musician

"You have to like the characters you play."

Ted McGinley, American Actor

"My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules."

Harold Ramis, American Actor

"Rosie knows how to play ball. She's an athlete, for sure."

Geena Davis, American Actress

"When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive."

Boris Spassky, Russian Celebrity

"That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed."

Beth Henley, American Playwright

"Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal."

Dweezil Zappa, American Musician

"I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot!"

Leo Kottke, American Musician

"A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following."

Duncan Sheik, American Musician

"I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!"

Humphrey Lyttelton, British Musician

"Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything."

Ornette Coleman, American Musician

Play, Rest, Trying, Years

"If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best."

Gene Hackman, American Actor

"We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice."

Kip Winger, American Musician

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