Play Quotes

If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

I usually play characters that are a lot different than me. I mean, I'm never in a fight in a movie and if I'm in them, I'm usually losing.

If I have a great game, I don't get too high. If I have a terrible game, I don't get too low. I know that there's more to this life and we were created for more than just to play a game.

I like conflict, drama's conflict and if you don't have that in the character it's really not a worthwhile role to play for me.

I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

You have to look past the cool things and play the game. That's why you're here, to play the game.

A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play. I try to embrace the silliness of it.

If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

I don't go to parties. I don't go to clubs. My friends and I don't go drinking, we play D&D. I'm still a weird entity in the world.

It's always fun to play a bad guy because you get more to do. It's more arch. There's more energy to throw into it.

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

Well, what now? You have no job. I have no job. Wanna play Jenga?

The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightning, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

We just have to go out there and play and take one game at a time. We have to know everybody will play the best game they can.

It's fun to play defense. It's fun to watch the opponent sweat on offense, start complaining to the officials, and eventually be taken out of the game because he's making so many offensive mistakes

The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.

I like to play music that people can feel deeply but it's also interesting to listen to - a nice balance between cathartic and pop music.

PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.

You cover 50 yards on the playing field of faith with a story that downplays your success. You cover 3 yards, or you may even end up backward, with anything that up-plays or promotes you.

I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

Play with no fear of failure.

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy

All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in.

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world as my career.

I like to play good girls more because I play bad ones all the time!

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

But. . . you said we were going to play Parcheezi. . .

Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you dont.

I tend to play characters that arent supposed to black or written black.

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play.

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.