Play Quotes

I think that's the best way to see things, especially this kind of play where there's no pyrotechnics, it's literally just people talking.

[Adolf Hitler] was Austrian, so he knew how to play that role [being capable of apologizing]. In fact, it wasn't playacting, it was just part of who he was. He hated to see women cry or women upset.

It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.

To play Cleopatra on Broadway would just be incredible.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.

Color will play no part in the art of future.

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.

Interesting little game we play with each other.

As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

I find it really difficult to even articulate things that I've done in the past. I express myself through the characters that I play, not through the articulation of them later.

I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.

I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.

I always did each show for about two years. So if you play the music, it just comes back to me.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

The fans here, they've been unbelievable. You've got to play hard for them.

I always knew I could play, but it wasn't likely to happen in Boston. I'm grateful to the Red Sox for trading me and to the Marlins for giving me the chance.

Time and space cannot play any part between two loving hearts.

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes

I either run or try to play basketball every day.

I make up a set of rules and play within those rules until I win.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.

I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan.

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz.

It is just fun to play with [in "Mary and Jane"]. I think our sense of humor tends to go that way.

Well, there are some who claim I'm more of one nation than another, but that's not true, Eddie. I'm of all nations, I play no favorites.

The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."

If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself.

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.

I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.

There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.

The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

I’ve even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

You know, you have to allow life to play itself out, don't you? And one thing you learn is that it doesn't stop. It moves on.

I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.