Play Quotes

I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn't exist in the play. I think dance is the ultimate form of expression.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.

I liked to play dress-up.

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

My body is the fruit of spirits' play.

The money game is not like any other game. You cannot choose whether you'll play, for the money game is the only game in town.

A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.

If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

Every Olympics is something special. If you're fortunate enough to play for your country - there's just so much energy. It's truly amazing.

I can play the leading man. I can play the action hero, maybe in just a different way. I look at it as, you know, if you set your mind to it, you can do it.

I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.

Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.

For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.

There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

I just want to continue to play football and be myself.

Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.

I kinda wanted to play receiver more.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it

As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

You see all kinds of anarchic forms of rebellion, but the moment of preparation is when the Communists and other kinds of political forces play a roll.

I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two rounds before running to their teachers.

I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.

All I have to do is play football now.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.

All of the films I'm doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That's the zone where I'd like to play and have fun in.

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste.

Everything that I play as an actress is a different aspect of me.

Voiceover work reminds me of old-time radio. When I was little I used to sneak and stay up at night and listen to Mystery Radio Theater - I loved all those old radio plays.

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

I can't say that electronic gear is restrictive. I think it is a challenge to play with electronic gear, and I regularly [perform] concerts with guys who are processing sound.

The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

No man is boss in his own home, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.

Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy sometimes because I'll just be laughing for no reason.

At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.

Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.