Play Quotes

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.

And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

What I've noticed in this game is how EA has even duplicated my moves and my style of play perfectly. It is really incredible and a lot of fun to play.

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.

I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!'

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.

We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

Study first, play afterwards.

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.