Play Quotes

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

I play better tennis because the court is there.

When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

My goal for Actress is to have it play more traditional theaters.

I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a week-long run for your movie. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get that.

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.

There's a fine line between playing with fear and then taking bad plays and playing with no fear.

The only reason you get drafted or even looked at by the NFL is because they believe you can play at the next level ... if they believe I can do that, you know I believe I can do it.

I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.

Whenever you can relate to the population of the team that you play for, I think it makes it that much more special.

The day I think about throwing the ball away at the beginning of a play, I should stop playing.

If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often get that opportunity.

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

You're trying to play an archetype on one hand and a character on the other, so I felt insanely frustrated, right up until the last shot, and then it ended.

It's easy to get stagnate, if you play the same character. In New Moon, I felt like I was going a little bit deeper.

It's a strange place where the film industry is at. I guess you could just play superhero after superhero. That seems to be the only guaranteed big-money thing. I don't know.

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.

Democrats can give us wars, you know? Democrats can play the false patriotism card.

You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

We're going out to play all the places where people might want to see us, because next time we might not just think about hitting every market or how we can make the most money.

I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.

The BBC, during its 24 hours on the air, plays a very wide range of stuff. And it's not commercial.

I usually play disenfranchised youth

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.

I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

I love both the sun and the moon, day and night. But I enjoy the day the most because I live in Rio and I can play sports.

Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball

Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

For me, poetry is the colour of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, or the pauses in Pinter's plays - only the pauses, not the words.

I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.

I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball.

I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.

I am not happy to play for Barcelona, but Barcelona should be happy that I play there.