Play Quotes

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!"

Caroline Corr, Musician

"Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well"

Bonnie Tyler, Musician

"I wrote my first play when I was eight"

Pam Gems, Playwright

"There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before"

Dave Brubeck, Musician

"I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music"

Kim Gordon, Musician

"Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person"

Tim Buckley, Musician

"It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play"

Bart Starr, Athlete

"Actors are responsible to the people we play"

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor

"In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero"

Chow Yun-Fat, Actor

"I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends"

Joan Cusack, Actress

"We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play"

Pat Williams, Athlete

"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

"Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth"

Marston Morse, Mathematician

"I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect"

Ryne Sandberg, Athlete

"I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with"

Roy Ayers, Musician

"I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York"

Michael York, Actor

"Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day"

Sandra Bullock, Actress

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

Ivan Lendl, Athlete

"We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it"

Lauren Ambrose, Actress

"I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day"

Sean Bean, Actor

"I play a recurring role for a character named Doctor Imo. I assist the villain and show up from time to time"

Keir Dullea, Actor

"Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music"

John Frusciante, Musician

"But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind"

Jenifer Lewis, Actress

"So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that"

January Jones, Actress

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