Play Quotes

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.

i play a mean harmonica

You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.

Here's a freebie: Don't play poker with a kid who can read minds.

I started putting words together, making rhymes and being witty with the wordplay. I can play a little bit of guitar, and that's something I'm going to dedicate more time to doing.

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.

It's always fun to try something new, and to play a new character, and it's fun to play another period.

I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

We limit ourselves so much. And, we limit heaven too. We think it's a place where angels just play harps. And hell has to be fire and brimstone. But that's very untrue.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.

I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten my hair.

If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!

Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.

If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's an ensemble show like... MASH, then you're in trouble.

I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?

I think girls have to play a little hard to get because we come with so much bravado.

It was a dream come true to be drafted by a pro team and have the opportunity to play.

I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream.

I used to like doing school plays.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

Over time, the games we play can change how we think and what we're capable of. And it's easy to maximize the benefits so the changes are positive.

If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.

You can't play the same game every day for years. New games are key.

There is so much more knowledge than most people realize about how to maximize the benefits of play and minimize the potential harms.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.

Ranger plays by his own set of rules, and I don't have a complete copy.

I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy." -white oleander

A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

I want to be the top player in the league, and I want to bring my game to another level. I want to play against the opposition's best players-and I want to beat them.

I would rather kill myself than play my own music... I can't stand it when people do that.

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!

My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.

You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play. I get that. And I don't shy away from those parts.

I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.

I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.

Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with.

I'd love to play Neil Kinnock. Because of my ginger hair, I thought that was a possibility. He's a hero and a villain in most people's eyes, but I'd like to do that, I think I'd be right for it.

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.