Play Quotes

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level

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.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

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

"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.

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.

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.

I just play the little guy, except I play him through dance.

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

I always stay out of the rehearsal room you know when they first come in. Then once they had chance to play a little bit, then I walk in. Because I've seen guys fall apart.

I lust love to play football.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

I can't think of a more natural experience in my entire life than playing with Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman again. I really learned how to play with them in terms of drumming.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.

I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life.

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

You could play well and still lose.

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.

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

Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.

I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.

I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.

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.

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.

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

I love to watch movies and play cricket.

To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense.

The trouble with plays these days is that they're too easy to understand.

If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

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.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

In art, everyone who plays wins.

With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.

I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.

Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.

It's been like therapy to be able to play music and not embarrass my children too much. They've come to a bunch of the shows. It's kind of cool. I'm glad they like it.

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.