Play Quotes

I had opportunities to play with other people and give my self some sort of security, but for some reason I wanted to play solo and just put it out there.

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

To play mixed doubles: hit the girl whenever possible.

The dogs absolutely do bark and play with each other, even though [Marino] says she trains them not to be noisy. But they're animals; that's what they do.

Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.

What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.

The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)

Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.

In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.

Every character I play is me, always has been.

I always wanted to play a lawyer.

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.

They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on.

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

The student-athlete should control everything that happens. From figuring out what kind of a degree they want to what type of a program they want to play for, they should control it all.

I love a lot of reggae, but Ive never had the opportunity to play with any reggae guys.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.

I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape.

Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.

I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.

I feel like all I've done lately is play really sexually-charged drug addicts. I don't know what's wrong with me. I've gotta go to Disneyland more and get more excitement.

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old; I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

Would I like to play the lead? You bet. Absolutely. But I get to have fun and I don't have to shave when I go to work.

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.

Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles.

The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.

In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.

Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

I didn't need the elf outfit to play an elf; I could just play an elf.

I couldn't play off people that I don't personally like.

I love any scene where there's a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I'm in show business and I play pretend for a living.

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that Ive had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitzs play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

Play fast, play smart, play aggressive, bring energy!