Play Quotes

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.

It's been liberating to be able to play someone who's a bada– or promiscuous, because that's the opposite of who I am … It's like a drug.

I'm hungry for a cold and mean character - I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie, someone really scary.

As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

No matter what the characters you play, you have to find the differences in them, especially when you are doing a political movie.

I take great responsibility in any character that I play.

I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work.

I'm not going to date a crazy party animal; I'm more into culture. I'd rather go to a museum, travel somewhere, or go to a play. That's more interesting to me than partying at the hottest club.

I did play Jesus in 'Godspell,' in high school, because I guess I'm a nerd.

For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

I don't play sports. The only sports I play is shopping. But there is a lot of walking involved in that... running sometimes if there's a sale.

I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

The way I look at it, a footballer wouldn't play in flip-flops or dip their feet in acid and then expect to get to David Beckham's level. My voice is my living, so I'll be looking after it.

I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.

I can play the air guitar really, really well.

I've turned down songs that would be much easier to play on the radio that I don't think should be on the album. Maybe I've shot myself in the foot.

I dont want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.

TV can play a role in delivering that emotion as well as the obvious ability to reach a lot of people quickly with that message.

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to work in teams, and to take risks.

Play doesn't have to be the opposite of work.

My goal is to always play interesting and very odd women.

In my 33rd year, I was called to play Jesus.

I am there to play tennis and represent the U.S., but I'm also aware that not everyone's going to be able to think that way.

You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.

I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that?

I've always been somebody that it takes me longer to learn things, but once I learn them... I'm like a quarterback that plays best in the fourth quarter.

For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than fiction writing.

The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.

I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge.

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.

You can't play forever.

I've always enjoyed interleague play. It gives you a chance to see different clubs, to go to different places. It gives you a good chance to see where you are, where you stand with other teams.

I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

For me, mood is something you have to ignore. I try to put myself in that position when I'm shooting and try to react the way I would. I try not to play funny if it doesn't call for that.

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

President Obama just made his first presidential trip to the state of Utah. Obama spent his time in Utah just like you'd expect - telling people, 'Uh, no, I don't play for the Jazz.'

I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy.

For me personally it doesn't matter who is the manager, I'm going to go out there and play for the manager, and play for this uniform as a team.

If you're talented enough and play long enough, and put up numbers, you'll get to the Hall of Fame. That doesn't make you a World Series winner.

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.