Play Quotes

I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?

Even though sometimes you feel like you're hand cuffed you're really not because it really takes skill to play the music properly.

My dad taught me not to overplay, to think about my parts when I play, even in a live situation.

I learned how to play the music working with my dad. Because in the beginning I was super excited, I had this gig, I was a kid, I got cocky and didn't want to take lessons.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.

I did five episodes of Townies as Jenna Elfman's boyfriend. I was a guest star, but it was the first time I really got to play laughs in front of a sitcom audience.

I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.

Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

I love performing in a good straight play as well and I'm a crossover actor, I crossover from plays to musicals, musicals to plays. This is very difficult for performers.

I don't think I can be intimidated about working with any comedic actors. It felt great to get to play hardball with the big boys as they say.

It's just really exciting to have the ball in my hands. Not just on defense but to make plays on special teams also.

I'm definitely a singer, but I play. I write music too, but it's all coming from the same source. I have never learned an instrument any other way than by myself.

Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace.

I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.

There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot.

For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.

I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

Michelle is 14. Give her a couple of years to get stronger. I mean, she can play on this tour. If she keeps working, keeps doing the right things, there's no reason why she shouldn't be out here.

Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.

If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar.

I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.

A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I love acting and I study religiously with my coach.

I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.

Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.

You would never dream of going on to play a scene in front of an audience at least without having rehearsed it. But you do somehow in front of a camera.

I've sort of done a play every four or five years I guess if I look back in my career. And I think that's good.

There are always fights in a band. People get together for these reunion shows after 20 years, and they play a couple shows and break up again.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

I would rather not work than play in a movie that nobody watches.

It's very hard to admit that the choice of 3D technology can play an important role for the director while he's thinking about the movie. But it does play a big role.

I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

You can't live on the hope of a television contract and play in a stadium with nobody there.

The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

In terms of a character, I would love to play a fairy. I think that would be really fun.

If I could play any superhero, I'd probably want to play Wonder Woman. She's pretty awesome.

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.