Play Quotes

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film.

I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.

I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.

Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time.

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

I don't know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn't make it to the play. I didn't think anything of it.

We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.

You know, we're not on stage, we're not doing a play, so we don't have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience.

Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.

Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

There isn't a specific person in my mind that I'd want to play. Yet.

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.