Play Quotes

You're never going to be a Yankee for a day, or you're never going to be a Laker, but with Pro-Ams, they allow you to feel like you're a professional golfer and play under their conditions.

As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.

Theres a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.

My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.

I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

It's a game everybody plays. If you see a man with a beard and holler "Beaver!" it's five points. And if you see a man with a moustache, it's onlI three points.

It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.

I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.

There's no doubt in our minds we can play with the best teams in the country - if we play well.

I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves.

Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.

You've got to play for whoever you play for.

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

I swim. I do a little bit of surfing. I would say I'm a beginner at surfing. I run. I cycle. I play a little bit of soccer.

O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!

Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there.

I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

Ease up, the play is over.

It's not how good you can play when you play good. It's how good you play when you play bad and we can play as bad as anyone in the country.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

Once you play a superhero, is there any way back again? Once you're a superhero, it's just crazy.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.

I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.

I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.

That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

I'm going to play my game and be who I am. I don't think anyone puts more pressure on me than I do on myself.

I think that players that are better at reading people are much more dangerous and difficult to play against, because then you have to think more about what they might be thinking.

I don't play video games.

I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to!

There's a chunk of myself in every part I play...

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

The trouble is you can't play many matches when you lose them.