Play Quotes

I love being outside and feeling free, so I jog or ride my bike. Some days I play basketball or tennis.

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman."

I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why.

I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical.

When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can.

Ain't it funny how a moment could just change your life, and you don't want to face what's wrong or right. Ain't it strange how fate can play a part, in the story of your heart.

I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller.

To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

At Arsenal we play a very attractive, offensive style so I always have to be aware of counter attacks when you have to shift your position a lot more.

They know how to play well but they do not know how to go through a whole tournament. We have been there and done it. They haven't.

I'm not politically active, but I'm saying [that] you can open up people's understanding of themselves and others with play.

I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of my favourite band of all time - AC/DC.

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.

As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

It takes a lot out of you to do a stage play, but I'd love to do that. I'd love to continue to do challenging material, whatever shape or form that comes in.

I love music. I do play. It's like mathematics, and it's also emotional. It's nice to play, for no other reason than just to play.

Deep play precedes deep work.

I think it just kind of comes naturally to me. I feel like I've been coached that way my whole life - to play dirty and to play mean.

I don't want to sound arrogant, but the defense might shut me down on one or two out of five plays, but I'll make them pay eventually.

There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.

When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.

If I can go to the U.S. Army and fight the war at 18 why can't you play basketball for 48 minutes?

Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.

I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

I should get a weekend show where all I do is play country music.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

I view myself in the narrowest possible terms, but I don't watch anything I've been in, and I don't read reviews or analysis of movies I've been in, or my plays.

It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.

I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.

I've always wanted to play a soldier and I'd never taken on a character where I'm the happy-go-lucky protagonist. I've played a lot of jerks recently.

I sing a bit and play guitar.

I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.