Play Quotes

It's important to play the pieces that you feel you can play well. It was always my dream to play Bach - my first love and fascination - Chopin, and Szymanowski.

A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

I’m a huge fan of the books myself, so to know that I got to play Clary – who’s a literary heroine to me – was a huge honour.

Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point.

My fault now is making my plays too short.

Its fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.

Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.

When I started in my career, my sister was very sick so I play for her because we didn't have money.

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare.

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to support what the classical economists called "unproductive activity."

Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.

I haven't retired from international football - I still believe I have a part to play in the future of England.

We never use the condition of the footballs as an excuse. We play with whatever or kick with whatever we have to use and that's the way it is.

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

If I can sell out clubs and theaters and play dirtbags in movies, and get blown up in a car or get the crap beat out of me in a movie, that's good for me; I'm good.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

I didn’t play video games because my parents didn’t allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

But I don't want to be compared to anyone like to impose my own style of play and do the best for myself and for the club here.

Well, I play Jews and parrots. Parrots are how I've branched out.

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

It's an exhilarating play, and you come off tired, but thrilled.

I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.

I am the best tennis player who cannot play tennis.

When you know psychologically what [characters] are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn't execute properly.

I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.