Plays Quotes

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.

I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre.

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.

I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.

Zac Efron is like a brother who's just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes.

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'

And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.

You always wonder if you can make plays at the end.

I did two or three plays every summer.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'

One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.