Play Quotes

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.

When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis.

Being a producer and a star of the play was a lot more challenging and difficult than I ever anticipated, but so rewarding. I got to be involved with the writing, the casting.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.

They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.

I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

I play opposite Beverly D'Angelo, and that was definitely a great time.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

If I don't play for a while, it's just like getting hungry.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.

You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

I like to play women who blaze trails.

I think I lead by example. I don't talk much. I talk when it's needed, but I just go out there and play hard every day and do it the right way.

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that

Created a word game to play with a person you're fighting with. Silent Treatment. Nothing happens until one of you quietly says, Hey, you hungry?

Alice Cullen had more vampire interaction, for sure, than human interaction. I think she was kind of amped to finally get to play a vampire, so she was good to go.

I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.

I like to play with things a while before annihilation.

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

Zac Efron is like a brother who's just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes.

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.