Play Quotes

I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours.

I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.

I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.

If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.

It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on.

I've been playing a lot of really strong, able woman, but I think it would be really fun to play a crazy drug addict, or something.

You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And empathy is one of those muscles.

If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.

I don’t think I’ve said this on camera, (but Ricky Williams) is the largest part of why I chose to come play for UT

It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

Did you used to play for Barcelona? Because that's not Barcelona football.

I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

I'd like to play an alien, like from 'Starman' or 'K-PAX,' where it's human. I think I'm destined to play an alien.

Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.

That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.

I was a college football fanatic, and I wanted to play, not sit on the sidelines. It's tough when you know you're just a project.

Byron is one tough guy and he can play through just about anything. I know he will be ready to go on Sunday.

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

I just play basketball. I'm athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick.

When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.

you have to play it out sometimes.

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.

Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun.

If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?

Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog..." "You play with the cards you're dealt... Whatever that means.

Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?

Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

I had to work harder. I couldn't do the social thing, and play the game the others were playing. I had to work that much harder and handle the 'evils' by doing good work.

If you play it safe, middle of the road with all the right notes, you might win. If you are unique and have too much personality, you might easily score a '0' in competition.

I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays.

I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

I think every boy would quite like to play James Bond!

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

No matter what does, or doesn't, happen for me in the music industry, getting to play the Opry as a kid was always be a highlight of mine.

You have to be able to feel like you can play way outside of the box. If you're with a great filmmaker and someone you can trust, that's encouraged, and Seth was that kind of filmmaker and co-star.

I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

[Clayton Kershaw ] is intense. He's a competitor.He's extremely fun to play behind.

It's like you're organically developing yourself, moving out, metamorphosing into other forms depending on where you are, what you're doing at the time, how you want to play on things.

I play harder when my family is watching.