Plays Quotes

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.

I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

My fault now is making my plays too short.

Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.