Play Quotes

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.

I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does.

My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.

I want to play Wonder Woman really badly. I want them to make the movie of Wonder Woman, and I want to play Wonder Woman so bad. Thatd be really fun.

You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

It's very easy to fall in love with every character you play.

This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

With the Law of Creation in play, you not only see the abundance and opportunity that surrounds you. You're able to TAKE it.

I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just plays.

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.

I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear.

We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers.

It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.

No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

Producing is important because if there is no one making the tunes, there is nothing for the DJs to play, and nothing for the people to dance to.

Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays.

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello.

It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.

New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.

You're your own play.

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.

There are only two types of girls: the type that you marry and the type that you play around with and then break up with. But you're somewhere in between.

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.

Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

I think that it's always great for any actor to play somebody who breathes and lives and is just a regular guy and has faults like we all do.

Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them and go, "I can't ever possibly play this." And I don't!

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.

People talk about generating my own work, but I don't really know how to go about that. There are certainly some roles in the theater I'd like to play but I don't know if I'll ever get to do it.

Right now I feel like playing as long as I can, As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

There is time to play and then there are times to work hard and get my fans an album.

My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.