Play Quotes

That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.

I'm a tomboy. I ride motorcycles, I play polo. I was on a paintball team when I was younger. Endlessly.

If you're with someone who enjoys having people play hard to get, maybe that's the way you're supposed to do it then.

I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.

There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.

I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.

I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream.

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well - it's a pleasure.

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.

Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

I used to get down on myself a lot if I missed a shot, and it would just break my focus. But now I stay mentally tough and try to just forget about that play and keep on going.

My bits of time play with eternity.

I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

I play the piano and write music.

I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what happened to my father, to me, and what can happen to my kids.

Honest error may play prologue to wonders.

Anytime I can add a smile to somebody's life that's all well and good, but I play the game to play the game.

Im always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. Thats how I roll.

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

I think the guys are more conscious of the fact that being in good physical condition under the conditions that they play will make them better players.

I like the Miami because I could play golf all winter.

The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never a distraction.

I love America. I wanted to play golf.

We just became very good friends [with Dwight Eisenhower], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should not play golf anymore.

I went to college to play football, not to study it.

If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays.

Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.

I came to AS Roma to play in the Champions League

I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.

I like to play around with mixing high-end with more affordable pieces.