Play Quotes

It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

There's an opportunity for the pharmacist to play a much greater role in health care, especially with what we have going on in this country with the shortage of primary-care physicians.

The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must also be the toughest critics of those who abuse the public trust.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1, 800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.

It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you play these places. It's part of our history just gone.

Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go.

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.

What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.

Dad told me that before I was born, he would put my mom's stomach up to the speaker and play Led Zeppelin.

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

I used to play Donna Karan. I used my dad's home office, and Kim was my assistant. Then one of our friends would play a buyer, and I would take her to my mom's closet and show her the new collection.

When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard.

If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day.

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

I play guys who never smile, and I never stop smiling.

I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.

What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl.

In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.

It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.

I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine.

It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.

I'm drawn to the romantic aspect of a character. It's human emotion. It's much more fun to watch. And it's much more fun to play.

My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.

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