Play Quotes

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place

I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.

I do well to interpret scripts to the best of my ability so even if I'm given a monster to play a love scene with, I will.

A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.

If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

...you must play for the little fellow in the last row of the balcony who only has fifty cents to pay for a ticket.

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.

You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing.

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours.

However many snaps I play for, when I'm on the field I go 120 percent.

I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.

Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.

Fair play to all those who dare to dream and don't give up.

Is dere anysing special about you? Anysing vorth saving?" Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican,' but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

There are surely people in London who would love to play us off against each other. That would be disastrous for the EU.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.

"Diiiie men." If you play any Broad City episode backwards, that's all we're saying.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free.

I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

It's well known that I play aggressively. When I'm not doing that, I'm not doing my job.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

You have to control what you can control, not the entire game, and try to play the best soccer possible and play clean and be smart and professional.