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I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
Rachel McAdams

Art, Dad, Sports

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.
Wade Boggs

Game, Hustle, Ability

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.
Jennifer Garner

School, Two, Community

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.
Willie Stargell

Mistake, News, Telling

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
Bjork

Believing, Bit, Spirits

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.
Edward Lear

Peace, Door, Next

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.
Leighton Meester

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.
Eric Davis

School, Mind, Baseball

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.
Dave Lombardo

Music, Genius, Definitely

I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one.
Antonio Banderas

Law, Remember, Desire

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
Damian Lewis

Done, Classical, Hamlet

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
Damian Lewis

Government, Policy, Foreign

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.
Brandy Norwood

Friends, Around, Ideas

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
Bruce Springsteen

Live, Past, Away

I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
Vin Diesel

Yourself, Character, Talk

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.
Jennifer Granholm

Woman, Tough, Last

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.
Gus Van Sant

Time, Trying, Reason

It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!'
Heath Ledger

Girl, Real, America

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.
will.i.am

Music, Technology, Mean

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
Bela Lugosi

Once, Mirror, Romeo

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
Bela Lugosi

Find, Become, Times

I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
Gary Vaynerchuk

Money, Game, Before

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.
Julius Erving

Team, Either, Captain

As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.
Julius Erving

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.
Diane Kruger

Music, Through, Find

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.
James Taylor

Nice, Father, Real

Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career.
Orlando Bloom

Career, Done, Until

I've played golf with three U.S presidents.
Lee Trevino

Three, Golf, Presidents

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
Lee Trevino

Age, Serious, Until

When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.
Lee Trevino

Life, Game, Whole

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