Play Quotes

A vampire may play with his food, but he never sets it free.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

Lyricists play with words.

You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

Any fool can hide, few can play.

It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

I don't like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there's an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice.

My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.

I want to be out there every single snap, every single play.

You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.

A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

Its just as disappointing as it was thrilling to win the Masters. To come very close, to play so hard for 72 holes and play better than everybody but one guy is disappointing.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them

Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!

I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

There's so many young peoople who start to play basketball and never learn the fundamentals.

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

I have to constantly tell my personnel staff, 'Hey guys, we're still a good staff even though we're allowing good players to go play for other people,'

I play well with everybody.

Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

The psych up comes from knowing what I can both give and get from each role. I get a lot personally from each character I play that I am able to carry over into my everyday life.

I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party, I'd play alone for hours. It became my buddy.

Every team has kind of a style or adjectives people use to describe the game that the team plays.

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

Half of the reason why people aren't able to succeed in life is because they hypnotize themselves into believing that they can't accomplish their goals, it's a mind game they play with themselves.

And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that's crucial. So want to be an artist and a servant, a humanitarian, and I want to play goofy weirdoes.

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself.

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.

It is impossible for forward play to be quite as safe as back play, because there must be a moment when the ball is out of sight.

I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.

Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

I know how to become a top 5 teamJust play Texas A&M.

I don't do anything for the money.

It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.