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We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens.

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games.

My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.

I love the immediacy of those old analog machines, it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

What position didn't I play last season?

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 grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.

If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.

My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.

If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.

The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.

I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.

The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are forced to play in something called the 'Quicken Loans Arena.' This is a terrible name for a sports venue.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.

I'm not auditioning to play convenience-store clerks. I don't see any benefit in that.

What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that's generic - an Indian accent and that's how it sounds, for example. I think the accent needs to sound authentic on this person.

Here in Argentina, it is easy to practice and play because we have the horses, the land, the players - everything.

I just play, that's all. When I'm in the field, I always connect with what I'm doing. I can't explain it. I can't control it. It just happens.

I play the way it's most effective for the team. They used to say I hit the ball too many times.

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

I love drums and still play frequently.

I'd like to one day be able to say, 'I was in more than one play on Broadway.'

I would love to play Wonder Woman on the big screen.

As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse, if I could still play with it now, I would!

When my boys were little, I'd throw so many toys at them, but they didn't want to play with any. Then I'd give them a truck, and they would play for hours. I believe the same thing applies to a consumer - edit their choices, and they will be more intrigued.

We used to play a lot of Fela Kuti in the early days of hip-hop. In my DJ sets I'll jump off into rock, salsa, African. I like to play some crazy stuff and see the vibrations of the people.

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about.

This is a dream from when I was kid. I'm playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody's dream is to play the final of a Grand Slam.

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

I think the age of 27 to 28 is ideal for the Salvadoran player to play qualifiers. That's why we've brought players who are between 23 and 24. I think in three years, they'll be well-armed to play qualifiers.

I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women.

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.

One of these days in the next 10 years, I will play 'Evita.' I don't know when or where, but I love 'Evita', especially with all my Latin and Spanish studies. It's a very demanding role but I'd love to play it.

I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it will move somewhere. There's something about plays where you can feel that sense of artifice at any moment.

In 'George Lopez', I played Veronica who's a bratty 18-year-old, and so I feel like it's much easier for me to play that because I feel like a late bloomer. It wasn't difficult or challenging at all because it's not like I haven't been a teenager.

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses.

Your artistry is a muscle that needs to be exercised, so if all you are doing is auditioning, you'll never get the satisfaction of fulfilling the need to play the part.

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

I can't even pretend to play golf.

I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something's missing. So I'll play with it until it makes sense.

You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

I came to the United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys.

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.

I like to work hard and play hard.

I live and die for the Buckeyes. I also love to play racquetball.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

When you're a kid that's all you want to do, go out and play football.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.

God does not play dice.

I couldn't sing without a guitar. I like the way it feels to sing and be holding a guitar, even if I'm not playing it that much. All my idols that I grew up liking always had a guitar on them, but they didn't play it - Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello. It's like having a partner with you.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile... before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way.

Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to play music in a lot of films that I've done.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

As long as there are games to play it is not over.

If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency.

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

When you're a kid, and you're a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to take any of those and play with it is a huge joy.

I love bad boys. They're the most fun to play.

I prefer to play the bad guy - it gives you more freedom as an actor.

I'm Italian. I wouldn't know how to play a Jew.

All I want to do is play baseball.

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. This is partly because it is a semi-open system. Moisture flows in and out unpredictably. A lot of nonlinear feedback loops and 'remote influences' - continental, transcontinental, oceanic, meteorological - come into play.

I actually have a stash of wigs for Halloween. But only for that. Not to play dress-up.

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!

I could play, scored a goal, I showed that I can play in Europe, in England. Because many say that England is very difficult.

I have friends who play for Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United.

I want to write a new story in Europe, to make a new history. I want to come to win the championship and play again in the Champions League.

I really want to play in Chelsea.

Talent is a feeling that you want to play.

To play for Chelsea is a blessing.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that.

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

I rather go to see a good play than be in one.

I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

Whenever I like a new song, I play it on loop and dance to it. That's my therapy.

I usually play grounded, has-their-head-on-straight kind of sassy girls.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer.

I just sang at first - I didn't ever play guitar before The Kills.

If you watch the scroll at the very start of 'A New Hope,' you'll see plenty of references to the story we tell in 'Rogue One.' And I play a rebel General.

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.

Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.

I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.

I want to play basketball so bad.

I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want.

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.

I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.

I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy. I have also seen how simple accidents can have devastating impacts on the port system.

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.

When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.

I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

You cannot play with fire.

I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated type of person.

Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.

When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up loving and who you wanted to be, you can't say no. Even if it's the most terrifying thing someone asks you to do.

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

I ended up in Parliament and soon discovered that emotion really doesn't have any place in politics. It's a much more intricate and complicated game, and I just didn't know how to play it.

I sign a film based on the story, the role I play, and the maker.

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

The New Deal exists principally on an emotional plane for Obama. To him, the New Deal is something you play like a song, to make you or your constituents feel better.

Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.

Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

My parents didn't play golf.

The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

Play so that you may be serious.

There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

You never know how much you can do in practice because you never know if you're going to play or not, but the main thing is stay ready.

I play with doing a forehead bun a lot, just a bantu knot right in front of the forehead and keep it in with a clip. And I like doing real pinup styles but based on my natural hair.

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.

Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.

I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around.

Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?

I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

I grew up watching Pedroia play.

My job is just to go out and play hard every day.

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.

I like to play football, read some books, study.

I'm definitely a football fan, so I try to stay up with how teams are doing, and you end up getting a lot of buddies that play on certain teams. I wouldn't say I watch too much of other quarterbacks.

I'm teaming up with Quaker and PLAY 60 to encourage kids to eat right, stay active and do something outside for at least 60 minutes a day.

There is a board game called Settlers of Catan. That is what I play. I am so embarrassed.

Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role.

I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.

I talk, watch TV, spout opinions, schmooze, negotiate, talk some more, play games, and have a little cocktail.

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

I definitely know that I play the part, however big or small, in the deaths of at least two people, Chris Farley and Phil Hartmann.

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

Any time I try to play anything that doesn't come natural, I'm just plain bad.

I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.

Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.