Play Quotes

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

In the K.H.L., you're even more patient at your position because the rink is so big, you cannot play that way.

As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.

I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.

But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.

I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.

I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.

I don't want to retire. I still want to play.

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.

I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life.

I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me.

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.

The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.

As far as the Jets go, I'm competing to play. It will be a heated competition between Kellen and me, and I'm excited about that; I will do it in a respectful way. I have the utmost respect for him because he's a great player. Whatever's best for team will be best for the team and the coaches will decide.

It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.

Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.