As far as the bowl games, I don't think the players really play for that. Not at USC.
For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.
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.
When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.
I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.
I'd love to play Venom. I'm a huge 'Spider-Man' fan, and Venom was the character that drew me into the comics.
I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.
Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.
One thing common with me and Shikhar Dhawan is that we play a lot of orthodox cricketing strokes. We look to play the ball along the ground and while lofting the ball, it's more with a vertical bat.
Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.
I'll take a couple of breaks for some food, but other than that, that's pretty much all I do is play videogames and practice with my team.
I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames; I'm really into them.
I don't play videogames and generally think that online activism is a giant waste of time.
I play videogames all the time on the plane.
It is a lifelong dream to even play for Villa, but to get to a European final tops it all off.
I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.
I don't play villainy. I wouldn't even know how to play it.
I don't do a lot when I'm in Gascony. I swim and play the odd game of golf, but mainly I sit around. We're set an hour-and-a-half from the Pyrenees and an hour-and-a-half from the Bay of Biscay, so we get plenty of storms. But we're surrounded by vines and sunflowers - it's lovely.