Dizzy used to tell me that I am playing too hard. He used to say to not give everything. Miles used to tell me that too.
I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.
After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff's small son in 'Macbeth,' I had played a number of parts, from 'Twelfth Night's Viola to 'The Merchant Of Venice's Portia'.
I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.
Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.
I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.
I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.
I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.
When I had the wonderful occasion to play a goofball, Jane, in 'Coupling,' it was definitely an homage to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who I just think is a genius.
I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.
I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.
After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.
When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.
Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.
Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling - don't you?
