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I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords.

I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.

Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

I've never played for a draw in my life.

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

I have an understanding of Queen and the way Freddie Mercury did his harmonies. I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

We played for power and impact.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.

Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

I've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life.

All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.

Surrender had played out for good with me.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

I never played with anything like toys.

I'd love to get played on the radio, but it just doesn't happen.

Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.

For years I have played the twenty-something lover.

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.

I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

I've played in a lot of big matches and you learn from them.

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

Golf is a better game played downhill.

Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

I've never played a character that would sing.

I got into pro ball at 18 and played until I was almost 39, non-stop.

I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect.

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.

I played one game, and one game played me.

I've played drums in bands since I was 16.

I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

Man, if they played the commercials for 'Murderball' as much as they do for 'Hustle & Flow,' 'Murderball' would blow up!

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.

But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.

We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

I haven't been with Vin for many years - is it 2004 now?

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on stage, and I have played on their record. There are a couple of bands like that. Yo La Tango has invited me to play with them.

I played a lot of character parts in school.

But I also think it's up to the fan base to call in the radio stations and demand that the more mature artists be played as well.