Play Quotes

We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.

My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.

You need something that no one else is using. And something that is clean enough to play around audiences.

I think you always take pride in how you play.

Riggedy riggedy white Come and spend the night We'll play some games Some wild some tame Cause if you will, you might. By, Laberge

It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of

Probably not. Their depth and our play right now...it doesn't look too good.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can.

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

I'm really interested in trying to learn how to play the guitar since I've got two of them! I can kind of mess around on the piano, but I'm going to start learning how to play the guitar.

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.

It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I'll just sit at the piano a lot an play like through different chord exercises and kind of just throwing my hands down on the piano from one chord to the next to see what happens.

In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

When I'm not paralytic, I like to play golf.

Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.

Now that it looks like things are headed on the right path, I'm ready to go back and play football.

The question is, do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain?

To be sexy means to have that special chemistry that arouses others, no matter what you look like. Energy and confidence play a big part, and great skin doesn't hurt.

It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to play a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action.

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

When you have momentum going, play the momentum

I first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together.

I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

I don't want to get rich. I just want to play my music for the people.

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.

But be careful about the parts you agree to play...You never know when one is going to stick.

How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've always acted kind of like a man.

I worked really hard to develop me as an artist and as a musician. I have so many different influences and play so many different instruments, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me!

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.