Play Quotes

Don't be afraid to pile on the midi rings! I like to play around with metals and pair delicate rings with chunkier ones.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.

I just loved playing the mean girl. When you're not like a character, it's kind of fun to play.

My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

I love sport, so I'd love to do more stories if I can that deal with sport maybe. Other characters, actually the real guy is so interesting why would you want to get anyone to play them?

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

I don't really listen to music before the game. I mean, I play it in my car on the way to the arena, but I don't really listen to music before the game. I'm usually working out or lifting weights.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.

I just really enjoy the ritual of going to work and playing, which is essentially what we do. We play pretend. Acting is a kids' game.

I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.

I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game.

One of the things I advised Donald Trump to do was to make sure that, before he commits to certain courses of action, he has really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out.

Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play itself out.

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.

If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.

I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun.

The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play.

I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

I would give the cameras to the kids in the swimming pools and they would play with them, and then I would collect them and we would upload it. If you're in the process, you're there.

I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.

I don't like to play the victim.

[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress.

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.

I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.

Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. "Thinking of You" is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at the prom.

It's a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, 'I get to play the First Lady.' It's just fun to say.

School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine.

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how they play out on real people's lives, with real individuals.

We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it . . . and I'd hate to see it go.