Play Quotes

God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.

I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.

It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.

Does fate ever play by the rules?

As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

The camera is really the play-by-play person.

You can make an editorial comment about the play while it's going on. You don't have to be bogged down by the details because the camera is showing the groundball to short.

There's a little bit more of a freedom when you're doing radio play-by-play as opposed to television. I prefer the television side of it.

If you want to play a cool punk club, that's great - but punk clubs don't have any toilet seats. After a while, little things like that become big issues.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

I wanna go play my music in a club.

Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant.

Obviously Javy [Baez] is able to control his emotions, he plays it as it should be, it's a game. That's how he plays it.

I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.

If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.

I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.

I think it is a huge honor to get to go play for the troops who have been working their tails off for several years, some with several tours under their belt.

I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.

When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.

I know this guy is a musician so I hope he can play us a tune that could get us the hell out of here.

Great players make great plays.

You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'

I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.

Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want.

To play a good guy is nice because in a way, he is so open for answers.

I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't.

I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit of the darkness in there. I like dark comedy a lot.

Messi. 86 goals in calendar year and still 3 games to play! Best to ever play the game in my opinion just edges Maradona.

To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

As a kid, I loved to play centerfield. I loved to make diving catches.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.

Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.

As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more important than what is coming up in the future.