Play Quotes

Music saved my life a few times because I could play the stuff rednecks loved. They thought I was great and they wondered why I didn't do that all the time.

When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from Star Search or Survivor or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life

Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money, lowers the fever.

The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.

I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.

That's not going to happen, because I don't want it to happen. I don't want a movie about me until I'm very, very old - when I'm very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged.

I will always play "Stand Back" anyway. And Prince will always he standing behind me every time I do.

Those yesterdreams were just a cruel and foolish game we used to play, yester-me, yester-you, yesterday.

You play the golf course just like you played it in your practice rounds and you stick to your game plan and just try to get whatever you can out of it.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is something we still don't understand.

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.

Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.

I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end

I would play football, because I love it.

You're not just writing in a vacuum, and then handing it over to someone else to shoot. You're writing, and then getting feedback from the actor and hearing their voice and how they play things.

Don't just tell your kids to be active and to get outside and play. Lead by example.

And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

My Dad wanted me to be able to play with him and my brothers. I was the only girl!

When it comes to pay raises, Congress always plays the role of Grinch. The bill extends an existing pay freeze for Vice President Joe Biden, specifically, and senior political appointees broadly.

Erica Kane was a spectacular role for any actress to play, and I felt so lucky to be the one who got to do it.

Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.

I don't know, think for that relationship in particular age doesn't really come into play.

As for where I am now, well, social media didn't exist when I was a child, and I never would have guessed just how much of a role in my life and career technology would play.

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

Eat when you're hungry. When you're not hungry, play with your food.

To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.

I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.

It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.

I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original Goldeneye. Im that geek. I have an NBA Jam arcade machine in my office at SNL.

I think the United States and its British attack dog are not taken seriously anywhere in the world and can play no role in helping a political solution.