Play Quotes

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh.

If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.

I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

I’m like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.

I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

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My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them.

I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece.

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.

The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can't if you're playing comedic roles.

I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.

I don’t like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good.

Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.

All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

If you want to play better, you have to eat better, you have to look out for yourself.

Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.

I don't have any fault steps. I play with good technique and good pad level.

I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play to be part of that shift? I have to take that seriously.

I'm starting to realize I can't practice a certain way during the week and expect to play another way on Sunday.

When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old.

"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords.

When I was a kid and we used to play Post Office, I was the Dead Letter Office.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.

All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.

I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

Anyone with talent can play in the Major Leagues; for someone like me to stay around as long as I did, I think that's a much greater acheivement.

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but youve got to work hard to do it.

Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.

In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play rugby for Belgium!

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.