Play Quotes

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

If I can play 15 when I am 25, I can play 35 when I'm 55.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

Peter stood up and let a wicked smile slide across his face. "Time to play.

Peter glanced up at the stars and a wicked smile lit his face. "Time to play," he whispered to the stars and winked. And the stars winked back, for Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.

My name's Peter. Can I play too?

I don't play tennis at all.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

I'm not good at living in the grim places...when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

My ex-wife has never broken 150. I wish she would stop telling people I taught her how to play golf.

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.

I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

now you play the loving woman, I play the faithful man

From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world--what he would like it to be, what his concerns are, what problems are besetting him.

I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing out on a lot of opportunities.

Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.

I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.

The true creator-self is a light at heart and free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.

The ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it.

Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.

I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.

I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.

If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications.

You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back there and play with any kind of guts.

If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.

I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

The reality is that players can't play forever.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.