Play Quotes

The reason the American people don't trust Hillary Clinton is they're looking at the pay to play politics she operated with the Clinton foundation through the private server.

If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads

You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.

As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a shitty teacher. I would never have went to me.

I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, 'I am a superhero,' but the truth is that we're all human, and that human quality is really important to bring.

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

People got to realize that the owners who been paying me are a lot richer than I am. It's not like I was born rich; I had to play basketball to make this type of money.

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.

Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.

Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.

I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t know what it is.

I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.

I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.

September morn Do you remember how we danced that night away Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play September morning still can make me feel this way.

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.

If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.

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

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

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible