Play Quotes

The gods play games with men as balls.

Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat.

As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match -- the Gospel, together.

My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

It's easier for me to accept that I can't play anymore because I literally gave it all I got. That allows me to be a little bit more at peace.

I get to kind of pretend I'm going to play baseball. I get to work out and do all the stuff that was part of baseball. I just don't get to play.

There are maybe one or two hours a day when I think I can play, but I get over that real quick once I realize the risk and my wife tells me, "Just take a seat."

There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out.

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.

Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

It's boring to play the girl role!

Music plays a big part in my life. I am a big music nerd.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area.

To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding up to one person.

I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.

I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just Nothing.

Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, You gotta believe in foolish miracles, it's not how you play the game, it's if you win or lose, you can choose, don't confuse, win or lose.

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.

Especially working with Adam Brody, he's just so funny in every day life. Working with him is a lot of fun. We play pranks on each other.

Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.

When you play the young girl a lot, you can be in the movie a lot and have nothing to do.

You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane

I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears...

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.

I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw.

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

Alec rolled beautiful brown eyes. "No fair playing the death card." "No fair having it to play.

Oh fine. I'll play nice with the pretty people.

So don't. Come hang out with me at work. We can play naughty dress up with the hospital gowns and rearrange the supply closets.

When I play a part, I never think about likability.

I want to play interesting women.

I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.