Play Quotes

"I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"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"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning"

Namie Amuro, Musician

"I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"We always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites"

Joan Jett, Musician

"I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll"

Joan Jett, Musician

"I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype"

Joan Chen, Actress

"I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother"

Joan Chen, Actress

"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile"

Christopher Reeve, Actor

"I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"I get to play a killer next"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other"

Tara Strong, Actress

"You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel"

Buddy Holly, Musician

"When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice"

Helena Christensen, Model

"At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year"

Thomas Tusser, Poet

"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play"

Joseph Goebbels, Criminal

"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round"

Ben Hogan, Athlete

"America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work"

Nia Long, Actress

"Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play"

Tara Strong, Actress

"I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win"

Tom Hopkins, Businessman

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