Play Quotes
In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.
Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.
Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).
To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.
When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.
I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.
It's absolutely physically demanding to play the role of Wolverine. There's a lot of action, and I try to do as much of it as I can because it's better for the audience.
I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.
I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way.
I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.
I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.
Now it's time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here's the first one: "Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick black, thin white." OK who's going to identify that?
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.
Speak louder than the words before you, and give them meaning no one else has found. The role we play is so important.
The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.
I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you.
Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.
If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.
Ultimately, if circumstances line-up in a way that makes it possible for Fugazi to play and the desire was there, we would do that.
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
Most of the time when you do a job, a play or a film, you're wondering, "Will there be an audience?"
Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.
I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.
I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.
Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.
People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.
As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.
You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.
When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share.
We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.
