Play Quotes

"Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less"

"When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses"

Brian Molko, Musician

"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy"

Chris Brown, Musician

"I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"I always play women I would date"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"I'm only 35, and I felt that the time was right to try to come back and have a chance for him to see me play"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play"

John Cleese, Actor

"I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure"

Imran Khan, Politician

"Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it"

Tom Lehrer, Musician

"But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head"

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress

"Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"To find a man's true character, play golf with him"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"Ease up, the play is over"

Horace Greeley, Editor

"I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious"

Peter Steele, Musician

"Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong"

John Bruton, Politician

"I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right"

Brad Pitt, Actor

"Study first, play afterwards"

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order"

Andre Agassi, Athlete

"And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave"

Nuno Bettencourt, Musician

"Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be"

Imran Khan, Politician

"I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera"

Israel Zangwill, Novelist

"So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was"

Maria Callas, Musician

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