Play Quotes

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.

I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

It's fun to play the type of people you dislike.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

It has been said that work is the highest form of play.

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

We must realize our own talents and, having realized, accept them; and play on them like a symphony in which all other instruments are harmonized to make a better universe.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

Hypocrites always wanna play innocent

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.

Idle time is the devil's play.

You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

Every Christmas my hometown radio station would always play 'Christmas In Dixie' by Alabama. I always remember lovin' that song.

I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

Well, it used to be Kobe Bryant... the second best all time.... now, I have a new favorite player to play against... my former teammate, LeBron James.

People are still trying to figure out who I am. Most people just say I play the game the right way.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

I wish I could be invisible and just play music and not have to worry about anyone looking at me.

I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.

I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

I'm excited about what the future holds. I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, "What are you going to do?" I don't know. I kind of love that not knowing.

That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.

Play every day. I don't know. I'm not sure what kind of advice I would give. You just have to do it every second that you can.

People come out to rough me up because they think I'm not going to play well. And maybe when I was in my teen years it worked well. But I'm used to it now.