Play Quotes

I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

I think it's just growth, and development, timing. I've been fortunate to be around for a long time. Allowed me to get better as an actor. Allowed me to play better roles.

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

I'm a tough guy, but I'm a good guy, I'm durable because when you play football they want you being tough, not just because you sprain your ankle crying "Mama, mama!"

Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.

We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us.

Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.

I would love to play Wonder Woman; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.

You want to play? Come find me angel boy.

One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.

Powerful women are the most interesting to play.

I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.

There's nothing more exciting than playing live for the people. Just play it, just do it.

I just want to play for the people, give my new sound to them, and encourage them and be encouraged by people.

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

India is once again ready to play the role of 'Vishvaguru' and work towards the benefit of mankind.

There is no question in the fact that India has a global responsibility, and the coming "Gyan Yug" would see India play a pivotal role, using the strengths of its democracy and demographic dividend.

Earlier we used to play with snakes, but now we play with mouse. Through IT, India's youth has surprised the entire World!

What they call "play" (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The First Amendment doesn't come into play because it's a private magazine.

[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

I bought my first bass because I wanted to be in a Band, and heard that it was the easiest instrument to play. A friend told me that it was the sexiest instrument.

I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

From the moment I first heard Steve Laury play, I knew he was dangerous . . . He is an extremely gifted musician who makes great music! We go back 25 years and Steve will always be my dear friend.

I relate to those characters - and any character I play - in as much as I put myself in their positions and feel how I would personally deal with their experiences.

The kind of churches we played in, it wasn't about how good you could play your instrument, it was about how much you enjoyed playing your instrument.

The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.

Even though effective competition is the best tool to strengthen innovation and competitiveness in Europe, state aid can also play a very useful supporting role.

It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.

If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.

You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

I never write a play with an eye to film.

It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.