Play Quotes
I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.
Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.
While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.
The essence of Bonham is what he didn't play rather than what he did play - what he left out.
As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime.
I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life
Return to the beginning. Enter by form. Clean your dojo. As you have every day, tie on the white belt and empty your cup. Pick up your guitar, tune, then play.
I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.
To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.
I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.
We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!
I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.
I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.
To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.
As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.
We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.
I had been practicing guitar about six months beforehand; I concentrated mostly on the songs I had to play. I got those down pretty well so they could use me actually playing.
Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day because there's no other way to play it.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you.
I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.
We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.
In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.
When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.
When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.
The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.
If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
