Play Quotes

I am not going to come back and play IPL. Have a few plans and may play a few matches here and there.

Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

I don't wear bright orange clothes or leopard skin boots, but it was really good fun to play someone that does and have an excuse too!

It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.

This is how you play tennis without the net

I think it's therapeutic when we play. It's just like therapy.

If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

You get to go and play with the big boys, it's a very privileged thing for us to do. So I'm sure we have more ideas than what I actually have time for.

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out their Rock star dreams as JEM was pretty much epic.

I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

I was really wanting to be a rock star. I was saying, "I am going to have a fancy car, I got to have fancy clothes, and I have got to play the whole role." Obviously, I meant business.

I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.

I cannot explain my plays. Each must find out for himself what is meant

When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.

I love to play real people... good people that I know the audience will get behind. It's the good people in the world that I gravitate to.

We [me and Eugene Levy] both try to play the reality of a moment and don't try to impose humor on something where it doesn't belong. Contrary to what other people seem to think sometimes.

I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to nightclubs. I don't go out to dinner that often. I'm not a big party guy.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

We need to realize that we have a role to play in overcoming our own discrimination which is sometimes very subtly held.

I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.

It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief. Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring.

Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie... Would that be intimidating?

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

A lot of times I play a fat woman with cats who has no boyfriends. And in real life, I'm allergic to cats and I've had a boyfriend since college.

I know you guys have some sort of weird thing going on, with that game you play and everything—" "It's called a friendship.

I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

I play piano every day.

I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.

The golf links lie so near the mill, That almost every day, The laboring children can look out, And watch the men at play

Chimes?" Phyllis asked. "Chimes to call a lover? Chimes with the voice of a bird trapped in them? Chimes that play you whatever song you most desire to hear?" "No thanks," said Nick. "We've got MTV.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

If you decide to do comedy that involves risk, risk means risk, and you can't complain of flesh wounds if you sit down at the table to play.

I just think that we have more opportunity to have a bit more of that banter between each other. And, given that the two women are so different, there's really something to play with.

God plays pranks and directs.

Mind, word and act; all three must be filled with the belief that all is His play; that is the genuine path.

Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.

When we play on big stages, we tend to beef off the dance side of things and keep up the tempo.