Play Quotes

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

There are lots and lots of different films that I love, and watching different characters and how different people play them.

I definitely did not play myself. As the writer of the script, I have traits of all the characters. I can relate to all of the characters.

I went to see "The Piano" with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.

I want to win a Grammy. I want to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. I want to be a musical guest on 'Saturday Night Live.' And I want to play arenas and have tons of people watching me.

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.

We play happy music and we make people happy, that's why they like us

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

The hardest thing in the world to play is something close to myself.

I know that sacrifices have to be made to play with good teams.

Eventually, people are going to find out I can play.

I havent won on my birthday since college, so its good to play hard and get a win by double figures.

I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.

It is easier for a rich person to act on their principles than it is for someone with fewer choices (which is why it is all the more disappointing when a wealthy person plays to the crowd).

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

Now, games have been democratized. Everyone plays games.

If you really pay attention to the movie, it comes into play, in many different sections.

Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

Im still getting more familiar with the plays and different things, but I think that will come along with getting more experience and getting to know the guys better.

You do what you can to help your team win, whether it's playing that many minutes or 24 or whatever is asked of you, you do. You prepare yourself to play as much as you're asked to play.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day - that's pretty much what today's comedy is about.

You get dealt a hand and you play those cards the best you can.

It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.

I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.

I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.

Some actors play themselves, don't they?

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

I'd love to play someone who's insane or something, just so I can go flake out. I like a superhero. I know that's ironic. That's where we are, but seriously, it'd be really cool to play a superhero.

I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

He's now letting Chang play his own game - and he does that better than anyone.

All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play.

Today, MTV doesn't play videos anymore, but YouTube certainly has become the next MTV.

In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

I don't get called very often to play innocents.

My parents got divorced. Early and ugly. My mum was nuts so I lived with my dad. We used to play a father/son games. Pin the blame on me, rock, paper, get me another beer, casino night.