Play Quotes
I'll play for a couple of hours and then before you know it, it's time to go on stage. It takes away any nervousness and anxiety I might have about the big crowd out there.
I like to play smart, three-dimensional women. I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people.
I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.
People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs, which are amazing. It's a good job.
It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.
I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.
I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.
If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.
The way I see it, the longer I live here the less of a choice you will all have not to hire me for plays.
I have a little Nintendo DS, and I play these brain games that are supposed to stimulate your mind.
We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.
My style of play has always been the same. I never tried to develop a specific style. From very young I just played this way.
The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.
I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame.
Of the many qualities I adore about Melissa McCarthy as a comedian and as a dramatic actor, the best is how fully she gives herself to every character she plays.
I'll always want to play and share my music with as many people as I can, but the emphasis is more on how do I find a happy place, what's my balance, what's my ideal.
I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.
I'd like to do a tour with a bunch of people where it's just them and their guitars. It would be like Lilith Fair - only everyone plays alone, and it would be competitive.
Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.
I've been a feminist since the day I was born. I wanted to play football. I didn't want to play with dolls; I wanted to play with boys and didn't understand why I couldn't.
If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.
I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.
I just think the more were observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.
The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.
One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.
Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.
It's hard to keep a play alive moment-to-moment, you know? But there's another part of it that I really love, which is that you never know.
Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom...
You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.
I always wanted to play with the sound, but I always wanted to do it in a respectful way, because I never lived in New York and I don't have a real connection to that scene.
I am not one of those people who like to play. I don't. I'm neither coy, nor do I, in any way, want to ask anyone to put up with somebody playing Hamlet.
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.
I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.
I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.
My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.
With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.
It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.
A global deal will only be possible if Britain plays its part, leading the way with other developed countries.
The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.
My Daddy was left-handed, and I was left-handed when I was little. In fact, I was left-handed all the way to high school. Then I switched over to right-handed cause I wanted to play shortstop.
I'd love to play in, like, a 'Lord of the Rings,' or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting.