Play Quotes

"He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant"

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

"If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play"

Willie Nelson, Musician

"If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us"

Kerry King, Musician

"I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine"

Dawn French, Comedian

"One must learn to play one's age"

Rajendra Prasad, Statesman

"When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that"

Robbie Fowler, Athlete

"There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference"

Luis Figo, Athlete

"If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can"

Ivan Lendl, Athlete

"Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself"

Michael Schenker, Musician

"I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl"

Christina Ricci, Actress

"All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do"

Matthew Ashford, Actor

"It means a lot to be back in New York. Particularly since one of the last senior event scheduled in the States was supposed to be here in New York. We were supposed to play in Central Park right after 9-11 and when 9-11 happened obviously things changed"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these and they know that that's Chris and he's having fun and he knows that and he knows that and you know that and everybody knows that"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know"

Bob Odenkirk, Actor

"Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene"

Elizabeth Moss, Actress

"From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are"

Boz Scaggs, Musician

"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part"

John Deacon, Musician

"When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured"

Howard Staunton, Celebrity

"I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right"

Jacqueline du Pre, Musician

"Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things"

Ruggiero Ricci, Musician

"The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role"

Girma Woldegiorgis, Statesman

"I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have"

Ana Gasteyer, Comedian

"I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow"

Oded Fehr, Actor

"Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz"

Thelonious Monk, Musician

"I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die"

Morris Chestnut, Actor

"I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer"

Andrea Martin, Actor

"Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again"

Stellan Skarsgard, Actor

"I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths"

John Lurie, Actor

"I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived"

Marilu Henner, Actress

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