Play Quotes

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

People aren't hiring just a picture, they're hiring someone they can work with. That plays a big role .

It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

When you get frustrated you try to do too much, you try to make stuff up that's not there, and you play outside yourself.

I believe that I have a platform because God blessed me with the talent to play football. Having that talent, my job is to be responsible with it.

When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

Whiners usually play alone.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

At my first Masters, I got the feeling, that if I didn't play well, I wouldn't go to heaven.

Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.

I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.

Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano, and dumb.

But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.

I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.

Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.

Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.

I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.

For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.

My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

I loved watching Ken Griffey Jr play for the Mariners and when he was trade to the Reds I was especially excited to get the opportunity to watch him play in person.

I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

It's such a great feeling being able to play shows for a great cause to help people in need. If we all try to help one another the world will be a much better place.

Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever

If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.

That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.