Play Quotes

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time I have to try to play with an edge and battle out there.

What position didn't I play last season?

I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.

I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.'

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you!

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.

When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.