Play Quotes

It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose that sense of play, the work suffers.

It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play you often end up playing leaders.

Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'

Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.

The end of the play is kind of the beginning.

Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.

I've never liked to play stereotypes.

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

I do like to play people I wouldnt want to spend five minutes in a room with.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.

The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after five years. We have to protect against that.

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.

I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.

You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to play a bag lady.

The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how great they are.

I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.

I plays Joe's best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger.

I enjoy the attention. I like the cameras. In a way, they make me play better.

My ultimate goal is to play in the Masters.

I want to play on the PGA Tour.

Something that you can't play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour's kitchen.

I certainly want to get back to the US to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.

He said to play louder. He can't hear you.

After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.

He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.

Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?

If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don't want that. I want to do everything I can to play basebal.

I feel that anyone can become an IM (International Master) in two years, but he must study hard and play a great deal in order to achieve this goal.

I don't care what any writer says about me ... I just want to play my game.

I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well.

When I play any of the top teams or the top players, it's a stage.

When it comes to our Constitution, judges perform, certainly, an important role. But the people, acting through their elected representatives, should play an even more important role.

Without question, the court does play a vital role in our constitutional system.

It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.

Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.

I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.

Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.

...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.