Play Quotes

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.

I'm lucky that I got to start acting when I was so young, and people put me in these movies. A lot of people don't get to play these parts because they start a little older.

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.

The lottery is a tax on ignorance, and all the losers that play the game are paying the price for their stupidity.

I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.

I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.

I'm a very feminine man. I like feminine things. I don't go to strip clubs. I don't drink beer. I don't play sports.

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

No matter how much you sit there twiddling, going, 'We're all doomed', at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play Creep. Get over it.

Every song that I play I wrote by myself.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

A play is a painting that moves. Instead of it holding still, and you are looking at it, you hold still and it scrolls by.

Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.

I've always said, the harder the golf course, the better I play.

If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.

So, regardless of what they do, we have to play like we’re capable of playing. That’s a greater challenge in itself, but that’s really what we’re after.

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

I feel much more respected in Europe than I do in the States from the press and from the people. Americans expect me to win every match I play.

With this ranking system, the more you play, the better off you are.

When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could play banjo, I got him to teach me a lick or two. Little by little, I put it together.

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

I can't play any horns. Every time I tried to take saxophone lessons as a kid ... I can't whistle. I don't know if that has anything to do with.

I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.

I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.

People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.

Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.

My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as well, and God plays a big role in my upbringing and my life.

For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

I've had to do a lot of growing quickly for my career and owning that I'm the boss. I used to play every single one of the roles and now I have to remember that I'm the boss.

The play-maker is the most difficult position because you have to always know where everyone is on the pitch.

When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand.

Jadeja has been sent by N. Srinivasan to play cricket and then go back…to Dhoni.

I was motivated by the fact that I wasn't happy with my play in this series and felt accountable to the guys. That's enough motivation to want to play well.

I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over.

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.

By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.

Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very pointed sound that gives a lot of poetry and emotion.