Play Quotes

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

You've got to pick your roles really carefully. It's a lot more fun to play a layered woman, than just someone where what you see is what you get, by far.

I like to play different ranges. When you get really deeply involved in the emotional parts, I enjoy that just as much as the fun and laughter.

I hate to play YouTube.

When I was shooting Drive Me Crazy, I wanted to go out with the rest of the cast and stay up late and play air hockey. I just wanted to have fun.

As actors, emotion is the sand in the sandbox for us. Without emotion, there's nothing to play - and we are playing. We know that. Whether you think we do or not, we know that.

It becomes more and more popular to call actors who play characters "character actors." But I've always been somebody who is much more invested in who I am playing than how they look.

The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.

Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.

Until my legs break off or I get paralyzed, I can play this way. It helps me be me.

For years now, the Lakers have expressed interest in having me play for them, but we could never get the stars to align. I'm finally a Laker...

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.

Everybody plays their part in this world and not all parts are the same. So I look at it like whatever I was put here to do that's what the outcome is.

You about to play an opponent who is either bigger, stronger, faster or more experienced than you. Is there any hope at all? Absolutely, because one factor is in your favor: You are the Underdog!

I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

As an actor, I'll play anything.

To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.

Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.

I just try to play more and more difficult roles.

I've been wanting to do a play for years.

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

Some people have questioned whether or not I can play a nice guy. Sometimes you can't win for losing.

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

I prepare myself in the summer to play 48 minutes. It's not a logical goal, but that's the way I prepare.

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

I used to need the character but as I've gotten older I need it less and less - I prefer to play some version of myself. To approach any acting job as me just being me.

The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.

Stop this agony of wishing Play it out Don't think, don't hesitate Curving back within yourself Just create... Just create

You remember the [remarks] you made in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' Well, you're about to get your chance.

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.

If I'm feeling something, I know if it's a song, or if it's a little story that I'm going to write, or if it's a painting or play. I might sit down and write a play.

I go to screenings, then plays, then after-parties, then clubs.

First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball.

Clubs don't like their players going off to play international matches and you can see a scenario where they eventually start to make it more difficult for international sides to call up players.

I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.

So, you know, if, if I wanted to get up and just play golf one day, I would just get up and play golf. If I wanted to go to Vegas, I would just get up and go to Vegas.

Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.

To be able to play somebody that says and does pretty much whatever he wants is great.

It's a big game tomorrow, obviously, quarter finals. I think that whenever you play the Russians you always get up for it, and tomorrow is going to be even that much bigger, the quarter finals.

I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed.

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don't have best friends or best buddies.