Play Quotes

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

"The Fever" is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

I love going to plays. There's a subconscious side to it, obviously-some people like to be spanked for XYZ psychological reasons, and I like to go to plays, and I can't entirely explain why.

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.

You're never happy with a tie you're trying to win. The reality is we have to come back and play tomorrow, and whatever the outcome tomorrow is, we have to come back and play again.

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

When I play stuff for my wife she'll be like, "No, not that song. No way."

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first secretly, psychologically, and then openly and miserably.

Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development

Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.

A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.

don't let us get sick, don't let us get old, don't let us get stupid, alright? just make us be brave, and make us play nice, and let us be together tonight.

If you're going to be called a musicianship, you have to be able to play.

I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

We love playing music but were too weird to play music.

We feel fortunate [with Canada hockey team]. We have got a lot of guys who love to play, but they also love to win even more. We are pretty happy. Although we are young, we like our group of players.

When emotions are high, things are said, things are done. Ultimately, these players want to play. I know too many of them love the game too much.

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.

In Europe, radio stations are owned by a variety of different entities, so there is less uniformity on radio programming and more opportunity for artists to get radio play and break overseas.

I think golfers get over-concerned about results. Enjoy the process: enjoy the opportunity to play.

While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain.

[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

It's very different. You do so many things in this play. You can't just focus on acting or singing. You have to be good at both. I'm very glad I did this play.

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?

It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.

I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.

Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.

I have fun. I enjoy my life. And I was hardwired for a deep connection between service, God, and happiness. You kind of need all of those things to be in play for one to have the others.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.

May we two stand, When we are dead, beyond the setting suns, A little from other shades apart, With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.