Play Quotes

• I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Prince
  • Cowboy
  • Pirate

• One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Tragedy
  • Used
  • Guilt

• If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Game
  • Play
  • Ready

• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Play
  • Like
  • Going

• In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Done
  • Hours

• Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

  

  Aristotle
  • Play
  • Learning
  • Pain

• One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Winning
  • Should
  • Cards

• If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Real
  • Guy
  • You

• Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Play
  • Player
  • Honest

• Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Play
  • Looking

• They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Game
  • Games
  • Break

• You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Guy
  • Always
  • Look

• A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Time
  • Eyes
  • Keys

• I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Play
  • Drunk
  • Director

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Church
  • Taught
  • Minister

• The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Couple
  • Lane

• As a young man, my greatest inspiration was [flamenco singer] Camaron de la Isla, no doubt. That was the best time of my life I would say. I learned so much and matured in this period. Later, my collaboration with Chick Corea, John [McLaughlin] and Al [Di Meola] in the guitar trio was something very special. I was very afraid in the beginning how to play with these fine musicians. But I found my way and I'm sure their playing also changed my music a lot.

  

  Paco de Lucía
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Guy
  • You
  • Snake

• I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Play
  • Walking
  • Irish

• For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Religious
  • Now
  • Holidays

• These facts shaw that mitosis is due to the co-ordinate play of an extremely complex system of forces which are as yet scarcely comprehended. Its purpose is, however, as obvious as its physiological explanation is difficult. It is the end of mitosis to divide every part of the chromatin of the mother-cell equally between the daughter-nuclei. All the other operations are tributary to this. We may therefore regard the mitotic figure as essentially an apparatus for the distribution of the hereditary substance, and in this sense as the especial instrument of inheritance.

  

  Edmund Beecher Wilson
  • Forces
  • Explanation
  • Distribution

• 'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Like
  • Paradox
  • Cynical

• It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Smart
  • Blonde
  • Brunette

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