Play Quotes

"People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

"It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge"

James Levine, Musician

"And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"It was so much fun to play, that I've now had a taste for it and want to play more villains now"

Piper Perabo, Actress

"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense"

Branford Marsalis, Musician

"I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula"

Branford Marsalis, Musician

"That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.'"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one"

Frances McDormand, Actress

"As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can"

Hidetoshi Nakata, Athlete

"I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son"

Frances McDormand, Actress

"The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes"

Claude Debussy, Composer

"It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another"

Bill Lee, Athlete

"There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong"

Adam Jones, Musician

"My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"The mindset of a champion is that I put myself in a certain situation to win, I don't play to lose, I dont prepare to lose, I hate second place and I definitely don't like silver"

Phil Heath, Athlete

"I never wanted to be a star. I never wanted to be famous. I just wanted to play guitar in a really good rock 'n' roll band"

Slash, Musician

"For the last six years I was struggling and it was difficult sometimes. I had to miss some training sessions but I am really happy because it's done and it is really good for me. I learned how to play with it, and now maybe I will have to change my game again"

Didier Drogba, Athlete

"Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?"

Ben Hogan, Athlete

"I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games"

Ben Hogan, Athlete

"I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons"

Ron Chernow, Author

"He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all"

Geoffrey Boycott, Athlete

"Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

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