Play Quotes

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.

Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.

You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role in shaping how we see the world.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.

I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.

You're always going to be mad about a bad play.

There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.

It's been a dream to play in the NFL and hopefully after next year that becomes a reality, but I wouldn't pass up being here with my teammates and coaches for anything.

Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained Bobby Orr, but you never stopped him. When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck, it was a good play.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

Chips on shoulder, all that, everybody plays the game for different reasons. You've got to prove yourself every time you go out there. That's the reality.

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.

John Bond has brought in a young left-sided midfield player, who I guess will play on the left side of midfield.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.

I try all night to play a pretty note.

Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.