Play Quotes

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so!

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

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

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

I don't play tennis at all.

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

This is a dream from when I was kid. I'm playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody's dream is to play the final of a Grand Slam.

These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.

I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play.

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn't play.