Play Quotes

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.

Physically I feel pretty good; that's the main key, is just making sure your body is ready to play every night since you play so many games and I feel like I'm there.

God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

There are some actors who can only play themselves, but good actors must really be separated from the people they play.

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.

If you want to play, you gotta pay.

What has emerged as I've gotten older is simplifying the characters I play, unless the role calls for something that is arcane or ornate.

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.

I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.

When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.

Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways

Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine.

Play, intrinsically rewarding, doesn't cost anything; as soon as you put a price on it, it becomes, to some extent, not play.

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.

I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.

What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.

I don't play the same guy a lot because there really isn't a guy for me. There really isn't a type you can put me in that satisfies everything.

Guys don't want to get to two strikes, so you have to make quality pitches early in the count, try to get them to put the ball in play.

Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my bufdfalo have found me.

Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.

They wouldn't let me play; only Alice would play games with me anymore.

I love to play hockey. I'm a huge hockey fan and I love to play as well.

None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.

I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose and I generally say I don’t play one so I don’t have to acknowledge it. I also play fife.

If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

The TV show. Any time you're playing, this is the gift, you get to play someone else. You get to be someone who you're not.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.

It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.

When you play in midfield, you've got to have legs

To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.

After one of my plays came out, I had mixed reviews, some bad and some good. One day, it dawned on me. I thought, 'I wrote a play and he wrote a review, and that's the difference between him and me.'

I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got $3, I think I'll throw it away.

It's cool to challenge myself to learn new things as opposed to going to play basketball in the park for millionth time.

For the most part I try to just stay focused not on my play but on our team.

We play a different style than other teams. It's effective, but different. We run the floor, block shots and create turnovers.

I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.

Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.

We're not anxious to play L.S.U. again.