Play Quotes

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

I think any time you play your first NHL game, you remember that.

I think you always hope you can play forever, but you always realize that time will come... I was fortunate I was able to make a decision, move on and do it comfortably.

The rumors are lies. There were a lot of people said we're not going to play that we don't have a contract. ... We got it worked out got it hammered out.

If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.

Wherever there are rock n rollers, well play. Thats what weve been doing for more than 30 years - rock n roll. Its made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

I was very excited when I first started to travel so much. In fact, I was amazed that people were paying me to travel to play the game I loved.

I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better.

Even though the stuff Im doing right now is relatively easy, I think in the future I would love to play things that have nothing to do with me and thats good.

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time.

I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.

I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play.

The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally speaking I haven't played very many ordinary men.

I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.

At the moment, I'm certainly not thinking 'never again', but neither am I thinking 'I can't wait to play that part again'. I'm somewhere in between.

It was the challenge of that that I found daunting, but also engaging and interesting [to play Maigret].

You must own it to play it.

The type of game I play, I'm going to pick injuries and suspensions, unfortunately.

I want to do what I like and that's play football.

Like someone once said, "If you're going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch." You need to perform the function, you know.

The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.

Beyond ideas, there's a field. Will you meet me there?

I'd love to do a play a year, if I'm honest, but it depends what comes up. But I do love theatre and it's very different from TV and film, not better or worse.

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

I don’t make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It’s magic.

It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being a woman. She uses her sexuality as a weapon.

What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

I've always had people come up to me to say that they admire the way I play, and then they tell me they're not United fans. That's always been nice.

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.

I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.

I didn't go to school three years for nothing. It was something that was understood. Even though I went to play baseball, one day I would come back and get my degree.

Manual Lynn? Find out what that is. He wrote every single word in the play, and then everyone just rapped their parts. Imagine if like, Eminem wrote a play, that's what it sounded like to me.

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.

I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey.

When I walk into bat, I should know that 'Yes, I've prepared to the best of my ability. I couldn't have done anything better.' That is when I feel that I am ready to go out and play.