Play Quotes

It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.

Villains are fun to play.

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair

Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it

It's a reality check. These other countries took it seriously. You have to realize that other countries play the game and that anything can happen in a three-game series. It's do, or die.

Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play's a little more pertinent now.

I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.

Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.

I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.

As a fairly objective judgment, I do think that my plays as they come out are better than most other things that are put on the same year. But that doesn't make them very good necessarily.

All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.

The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.

When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.

Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the need to make a living, I don't know whether I'd have the plays produced.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

The one overall structure in my plays is language

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

One of the rules of plays, I feel, is to never use an extra word if you don't have to.

I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.

Play needs direction as well as work.

My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My first exposure to music was listening to jazz records.

Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire me are the people I play with.

It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.

When you play a tiebreaker, you dont have time to think of anything, ... You have to go for your shots because one shot can make such a difference. Thats the kind of shot that can break an opponent.

I would like to play Broadway!

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

I'm not satisfied. I'm still enjoying this. I still feel like I'm in the best part of my career and I can play at a high level. This is what I love to do: playing football and winning games.

The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again.

I'll play a character who is getting married to a woman to avoid the draft. Ultimately they fall in love with each other, but at first it's only out of practicality.

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.

I don't like to play characters that are one note, and just the attractive girl in the film.

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.

Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.

I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public.