Play Quotes

You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don't try to play theirs.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

It was kind of a prodding myself to play I Walk The Line straight.

I go out and play not for the numbers, but for a chance to win and the thrill of playing in front of a packed crowd.

I play every game like it's going to be my last.

I just go out and play.

There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.

Without chiropractic, I wouldn't be able to play consistently throughout the season.

I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.

I'm not at all competitive. I'd rather play Solitaire than ping-pong.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.

The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.

Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton.

Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

Maybe if you play somebody in a certain world people sometimes misinterpret that it's a support of that world or that occupation or something.

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!

I don't like the theatre. I like plays in which the audience is addressed by the actors. I don't like seeing people talking to each other on stage as if there isn't an audience.

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

It's amazing to hear proficient musicians play your music. It's a once in a lifetime kind of experience.

I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

You really have to work harder to come up with new ways to play the scenes.

I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?

I'll be satisfied with what I've got at the end of the season, ... If I can play every day, the numbers will come.

My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

My dream role is to play in a story of how the Joker became the Joker, and I would play the young Heath Ledger.

The only time I can ever remember Steven crying over any of it was after my treatment, when I tried to use my foot on his bass drum pedal, and we realized I could never play a drum set.

I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

Spain believe in what they do; they have absolute confidence in their style of play.

It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game

Skating is an amazing form of self expression. It's like my soul at play.

Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.