Play Quotes

I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

My problem is not that I don't want to play, it's that I don't want to live!

I love to play music.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it

I think it's important as a player every now and again to play something that's influenced you as an artist just to expose the people to it.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll

Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?

I want you to play me like a cello.

You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play."

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

You can lose your ability to play romantic scenes... you have to ensure that your mind is in the right place.

Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over that track.

If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.

Play is where life lives

Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.

On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.

Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

Where I play, the greens always break toward the bar.

Now that I am no longer President, I find I can no longer win every game of golf I play.

There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".

I know, by the Lord's grace, I am a small part in the cosmic play.

You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there.

To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.

He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]

Play with a foole at home, and he will play with you in the market.

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

I do so hope he plays us 'The Rains of Castamere.' It has been an hour. I've forgotten how it goes -- Olenna Tyrell, the HBIC

I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion.

Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to really see it.

[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't play that game. I wish I could, but I can't do it."

Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that its much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.