Play Quotes

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time

This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.

This is a great idea,” said Trey. “You kids should totaly go see that play. Make a whole day of it. Grab some dinner and hang out at the library or whatever it is you do for fun.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and a a play with our expectations of that.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to play so much.

I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.

I Play Dodgeball with Cannibals (Chapter 2)

If they're going to pay me like [Mike] Gallego, I'm going to play like Gallego.

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

It will be great to play a short, fat sweaty loser for a change.

I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight.

An actor is like an instrument, tune them, play them the right way.

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.

If I can walk, I'll play.

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.

Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up the sky and yet try not to spill the stars.

From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I'm still doing it. I still love it so that's why I do it.

Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off.

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

If it's attention you want, don't get involved with a man during play-off season.

Never play peek-a-boo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!"

The last thing we wanted was a copycat. When we saw [Richie Faulkner] play, we thought, "We don't have to tell this guy anything. He's got it."

Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal.

I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.

I play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can.

I have always wanted to come and play in MLS so it’s the perfect combination for me and a dream come true.

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

Working because you want to is the best sort of play.

Each one of us has the ability to play the game of life with balance, harmony and joy, but we need to know the rules and the principles.

Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago.

The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.

Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!

The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

Attend your children's athletic events. There's nothing better than watching your child succeed while absolutely loving the opportunity to play in front of you.

I sometimes get tired because I can seldom read a book for pleasure. I'm like the play reviewer who happens to go to a play on an off day and can't help but view it critically.

[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have seen at least one of his plays.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys.