Play Quotes

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with.

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.

It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on. I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.

You get to play with people's little danger zones.

If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for 10 more years.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

A guy has to have the want-to. You don't just make plays by a mistake, by accident.

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.

The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.

Learn all you can about people in other parts of the world. Understanding how people in other countries live and work and play teaches us to respect them and promote peace everywhere.

I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

I could always throw the ball pretty well and I worked pretty hard at learning how to play the game. But I didn't consider it work as a kid, since I just loved playing baseball.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.

Five years is a long time to play one part.

If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

Life's too short to pretend and play games like that. I want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. People who make me happy.

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music

Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence