Play Quotes

"I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window"

"Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool"

George Savile, Politician

"Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"It was all I lived for, to play baseball"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudonymous - and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"A play visibly represents pure existing"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene"

Christian Bale, Actor

"Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with"

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

"I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here"

Don Shula, Coach

"Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it"

E. B. White, Writer

"I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story"

Patti Smith, Musician

"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

"As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play"

Bridget Riley, Artist

"Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play"

John Steinbeck, Author

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