Play Quotes

"It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Our swords shall play the orators for us"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"I like honesty and fair play"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

"It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference"

John Barrow, Politician

"I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place"

John Barrow, Politician

"Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"Only in a novel are all things given full play"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"The art of interpretation is not to play what is written"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

"We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them"

James Laughlin, Poet

"I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash"

Jason Statham, Actor

"Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me"

Lou Reed, Musician

"In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play"

Lou Reed, Musician

"I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days"

Douglas Wood, Writer

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