Play Quotes

I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.

I make too much money to play a game I love to ever feel sorry for myself.

As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.

I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.

I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

When I make exciting plays, it's usually because I was in the right place at the right time.

A lot of people think Utah is a bad place to play, but hell nah.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.

It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool.

I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.

It's cool to play a vampire.

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.

I've always been attracted to ensembles. When I started doing plays in high school and in college, I always loved the community aspect of it. I loved these little families that would develop.

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

I would love to play Bobby in COMPANY. Also, I would love to play George in SUNDAY.

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.

When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.

Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

My puppies play a daily role in inspiring me too! But most of all, my husband, Conroy Chan, inspires me in life. He's always there to help keep me going.

I feel like I'm a quick learner and I'm also very quick to forget. That's why I can't play an instrument because I can't bloody remember it.

Life's a show and we all play a part And when the music starts We open up our hearts

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

I guess I was a bit of a tomboy. I liked to catch frogs in the ditch, play soccer with my brother’s friends and play video games.

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered.

I got to play Santa, too. It's really important to play Santa, you know.

I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible.

I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.

The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

I love to get people to sing and play together.

I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there is some kind of sweeter, softer side to it.

You know, it's always fun to play the bad guy at the end of the day.

I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.

Everyone [of my kids] can ride a bike now, so the park has had a big resurgence in our life. We also play a lot of dumb drawing games.

We make them [kids] earn the stuff they want. They're not going to play with their iPad today unless they do their chores.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

A helpful hand is a lesson in sharing and if you have the means why not play your part. Those who refuse your help are foolish, as we all know appreciating the helpful hand is just smart.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.