Play Quotes

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.

Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

It's quite quick for me to know if I want to play a character or not.

Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.

I do understand the perspective of die-hard fans who complain that we don't play the same as the record, but at the same time I think fans are getting an amazing deal.

I think where you play is important.

I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well.

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.

I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space.

I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff, and I'll sing when it's just me.

I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.

I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht.

After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.

Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.

I always wanted to play the boyfriends of doomed girls.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that. But I wasn't doing well in any of the schools, so by ninth or tenth grade, I ended up going to a boarding school.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.

I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.

There were a bunch of moments that kept cascading. Like, when we got an opportunity to play "Letterman", it gave us an opportunity to step up. It feels good to shed that skin and rise out of it.

I think I’ll play two years more, if my own body lets me do that... I still think my best tennis is still to come.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

I can't play Mahatma Gandhi.

I could play Arab roles, even German roles, Italian roles because I had that look.

I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.

I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.

In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge.

In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.

I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.

I didn't come to play. I came to win.

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.

Having the opportunity to play a strong woman is a good one.

I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles, but they're certainly not the only roles I can play.

I knew I wasn't the person to play Ponyboy because I'm a girl, but without knowing it, I understand that was a place I could put all the stuff that I was feeling.

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously.

I didn't play with other children.

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.

You know, it's hard to say what's going to happen in the future. But, if I stay healthy, I think I'll probably play until I'm about 40.

If my music doesn't fit, I understand, ... If I'm to play my music, that's the way it's gonna be.

However, if I ever were in a position to choose who would play me, I think I'd choose Johnny Depp.

They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].