Play Quotes

It is a great feeling of course to have scored so many runs, but that is what I play cricket for: to score lots of runs.

One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.

It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought.

There are much worse games to play.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.

Your play account is also designed to strengthen your "receiving" muscle.

In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

God gave us music, so we play with our words.

No matter what feeling comes up - numbness, irritability, shame - if I let it arise and play itself through, I naturally open into wakefulness and care.

I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.

I play the living hell out of my guitars daily, and as sure as the sun rises in the east, killer licks, ideas, grooves, patterns and songs erupt every time.

Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.

I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

Don’t. Don’t play that game.” His brow pressed to hers. “When I heard you cry out . . . it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all.

The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

I'm just going to play whatever game is in front of me.

Our motto is just to play the whole 48 minutes. We are here to play it from start to finish. Things will go up and down. We will make runs and they will make runs. But we just keep playing.

I'm going to try to fit in where I can and play the way I can.

Humility is always one play away.

You can play with the reality and the 3D is a tool to play with it.

When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

You've got to respond to the fans, and play well, or people will jump on you. They'll read something and jump on you.

I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun.

I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

You can only play one hole at a time.

Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Mötley Crüe could be the first band to play on the moon.

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member

I eat whatever I like, but I play tennis and run nearly every day.

Clearly the West Indies are going to play their normal game, which is what they normally do

Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni