Play Quotes

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.

Songwriting can be cathartic, but then you just keep it private. If you're going to play out and have other people listen to you, then you need to make sure there's some point to what you're saying.

John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems like he's talking to god, but he always takes a hold of the melody.

Steven [Sebring] just fell in with my family life. He helped me wash the dishes and play with the kids. I could tell that he was a person who understood families.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

I love to go see live music. That used to be what I would do, almost every other night, and watch drummers play.

To play the drums, you have to spread your legs and use your arms. It's a very physical instrument to play. It's not feminine.

Talking about music and talking about drums brings me back to my beginning and the simplicity, and the excitement about trying to play something and see if it works for your band.

The NBA is tough. Everybody plays hard and every game is vital.

I want to continue to expand my game a little more, build my body and work on staying strong so I can play the way I've been playing, and holding my ground the way I've been holding my ground.

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.

I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again.

When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a Broadway stage at 11 years old? It's so far in the distance now.

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around

Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.

It's always been my dream to play in the NBA.

I try to play within the flow of the team's offense.

When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.

How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances.

MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to and you just have to play along with it, deal with it.

Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?

I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulation on every note.

Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

I play Hank Hansen, a real guy. Youd be amazed at how much information they have on this guy: personality traits, nicknames, favorite color, you name it.

I love the Kinks, but I like all sorts of music. If I stay at home at night and play records, I just go through the whole spectrum, really. I just love music.

It's always good to play New York. The Apollo is a great gig. I loved that.

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in.

If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.

What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.

My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income. And I got fascinated with it, so she backed off and let me do it.

You invent things like algorithms to take care of some of the changes you want to make. The changes aren't detectable. There's all kinds of things happening as I play.

The sound that I play is delayed, it's modified, and it's modulated. It's an intelligent system; it's happening now.

I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

When I go to the plate, I think about putting the ball in play. It's important to get on base and get some walks, but I don't go to the plate thinking of walking.

I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.

It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.

I have food every day on the table, I have a family, friends, health - all the things without which it wouldn't matter how many roles I get to play.

I was happy that I finally could play a mature woman, because I started working when I was a teenager and was always playing characters according to my age.

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

I’ve learnt to listen. I don’t think I always did listen. Not just in plays, but in life. And you have to hear what people are saying before you can respond.