Play Quotes

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.

The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.

I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

I never saw the play, although I heard it was good.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.

If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.

What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.

I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.

I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else.

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.

I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to.

The only other things, and again these things are hearsay, is that he could be pretty rough on directors, because he knew exactly the way he wanted to play the part. And he did so.