Play Quotes

One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art.

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.

Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.

The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.

A daily newspaper should report the news, not play at geopolitics.

I'm not James Bond. There's your headline! It's very clear to me that he's the furthest from my character that it's possible to be. It's somebody I play.

The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play.

I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.

I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to feel modern and feel a little confident.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer

I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.

Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry Potter.

A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.

If we want money we’ll go to Las Vegas, if we want an after party we’ll go to Miami but if we want to play for love, we still come to India!

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.

So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.

If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described that way. The term is "long-suffering."

I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.

When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.