Play Quotes

I've always enjoyed family movies anyway. And I grew up loving actors who could hop around and play in something very family friendly, big, playful - and then go and do drama and comedy as well.

Every player feels like they can play at this level. Not every player gets an opportunity. I was fortunate to get an opportunity. Everything's kind of worked out real well.

I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

I can't watch a woman play with herself - to me, it looks like a DJ working the turntables... DJ Diddles.

I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.

Study first, play afterwards.

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.

Someone asked me if I play piano because I feel like I have a protective wall around me. Maybe. I am really messed up.

I'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'

I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.

I'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range.

I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.

Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.

The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

When I did play, I tried to make the most of it.

I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five- this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16…but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

I love to work, so give me what you've got. I'll play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work.

Part of my success was having a place to play as a kid.

I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.

There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.

I feel kind of sorry for those kids who just play one sport growing up.

That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.

I am blessed and honored with the opportunity I have to come play for the San Diego Chargers now.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

The opportunity to go up to Canada and play was just a blessing for me and my family.

When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

A guy like myself wants to make a play and be the difference, but the thing is I have to keep saying to myself to just do what I can.

The great thing about golf - and this is the reason why a lot of health experts like me recommend it - you can drink beer and ride in a cart while you play.

I want to play the regular guy who's had a bit of a jaded past or a bit of a tortured soul because I think they're interesting.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.

You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.

Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down.

Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you?

I did a 'Children of the Corn' remake for Sci Fi Channel. I play the Peter Horton role from the original, and Candace McClure from 'Battlestar Galactica' is my Linda Hamilton.

Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.