Play Quotes

I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

You could play well and still lose.

I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

You have to play the logic of a character.

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

I listen to kids play a lot.

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

And I got to play lead with Gene Barry - a fellow who has never, ever been hard on the eyes!