Play Quotes

Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart?" "Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh.

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal, but in westerns it usually plays out on a big stage.

I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

At the beginning of a long-running play, everyone's nervous and paces around in a panic and reapplies lipstick. After a while, you'll get long-running card games or word games like Boggle.

If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.

But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.

I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real.

A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.

God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her.

I would love to work with my sister in a movie one day - like play sisters or something like that, because we've never been on-screen at the same time together.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.

You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, think again.

I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y.

I do what I love to do. I have awesome people who let me make the choices I want to make. I navigate things by whether I want to play a part or not, to be honest.

Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass.

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up.

I think the simpler it is when you have a crazy character to play is almost more creepy and interesting.

It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.

It's nice to play someone who is naive.

When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?

God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.

I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.

Rob Lowe is a sportsman and a ladykiller and it's impossible to be in a scene with him and not immediately begin to play tennis.

So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.

I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.

There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.

I love the idea of getting to play different characters and tell some stories. When you're passionate about a project, it's nice to get the part.

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.

I hope that Angela Merkel can become the chancellor of the rebuilding of Europe, in close cooperation with the role that I will play in the process.

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

Recording interviews is like magic. a) It stops you from taking notes in the middle and b) you can play that recording for people.

Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.

Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

I don't take life so seriously I can just play with life.

The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.

I tell you, revenge plays a big part in momentum down here.

My only goal is to play 162 games and help this team win. If I can do that, everything will take care of itself.

I have figured out it's not what you do on the field, it's how many games you play in.

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.