Play Quotes

If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.

There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.

We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.

What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.

You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.

In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds.

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

You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it.

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.