Play Quotes

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.

There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff.

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

You try to get the feel of any role, but it's much more difficult in the case of Christ because everyone has their own personal image of Him. It's a role you take on, knowing that no matter how you play it, you are going to disappoint many.

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.

The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.

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