Play Quotes

I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry.

When I was a kid and I would play pretend, I would end up with blood everywhere and I would cut my feet up. I love the feeling of it being real.

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

When you're doing what's right, on and off the field, the Lord steps in and plays a part.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without The wild winds shout, But no, it is they - it is they.

I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play!

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.

When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

I say it the way it is. I don't play around. That has been my success, in my opinion, for Mississauga.

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I play a lot of basketball.

Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

It's so crazy with the Internet and being able to play shows to people who are actually interested in you. I feel so lucky when that happens.

We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents.

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.

There is no sin in not liking to play; it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to.

Walk along one day and do nothing wrong, play by the rules, be a good person, do everything right: it doesn't guarantee anything.

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

I don't play golf or all those things people normally do for business. I do parties. That's where I bring people in, showcase ideas and, in the end, do deals.

The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way.

If I do get nervous for a game, they usually go away after the first play. For the Super Bowl, it never went away.

Life is a movie, let love play its role.