Play Quotes

It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.

I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it.

The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

I play myself on everything I do.

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

For one thing, I like to walk when I play golf. Now I don't walk the whole way, but I try not to be the driver when in a cart.

I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her.

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.

You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

Play every game as if it's your last one

I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'

I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it.

If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.

We all know Gael - when he's at his best, it's tough to play.

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.