Play Quotes

I learned to play piano on my own and my parents thought "Oh it would be a good thing for you take piano lessons. That's the way you really need to learn to play the piano."

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'

I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto.

Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.

I love sports. I play golf now, which is relatively new for me. I only took it up about five years ago. I also like playing piano, and I love being with my family and friends.

Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care about, or do TV or a big commercial West End show.

The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets it.

I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.

There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.

Walter Payton is still the best back ever to play the game.

I don't know how to play myself. I'm not interested enough in myself. That's just not how I was educated. That's not how I learned to become an actor. Acting is creating a character.

Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"

The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.

I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

One of the things you do in a band is the more you stay together, the more you play to your strengths.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I'm only at the beginning.

I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely.

I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.

People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.

I'm not an improv guy. I'm not a nerd, I play one on television.

I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV.

There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

Whenever I get a chance, I'm trying to take the extra base and make them make a play on me. I'm not going to stop looking for the extra base unless the scoreboard tells me.

I still have the passion to play.

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well.

Unless you are wealthy, you cannot afford to act or direct one play and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

I did two or three plays every summer.

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.

Ginny's Little Longhorn is my favorite place to play and hang because it's close to old school beer joint music venue as you'll ever find. The Continental Club is also in the top as well.

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

I don't really know what's going on with the Pornographers - everyone's kind of doing their own stuff. I mean, they play shows here or there.

I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.

I didn't understand how funny this play Much Ado About Nothing truly was until I became an English teacher and had to teach it. There is no wittier dialogue anywhere.

So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.

I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.

Here's a test you can try at home, Put a 2 year old in a playpen with an apple and a rabbit. If it plays with the apple and eats the rabbit, you've got a carnivore.

My idea for a Buddhist video game: No guns. Self-immolate instead. Get reincarnated. Repeat until you find Nirvana. Takes forever to play.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.