Play Quotes
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I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?
J. B. Priestley
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When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.
Gary Player
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I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do what you want. It's the process of working with the materials that you find and discovering what's possible with them.
Ian Bogost
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Many children from troubled families have difficulty relaxing and having fun. Ability to be spontaneous and to play is a need and a characteristic of our Child Within.
Charles L. Whitfield
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When they used to come to Tottenham we'd play Who's Gonna Drive You Home? Just to wind them up.
Chris Waddle
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It seems he'd seen me in a play or plays.
Abe Vigoda
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You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.
Glenn Tipton Judas Priest
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It doesn't matter what we call it, it's still Robbie and I together playing 'Light My Fire' and 'Love Me Two Times.' John should come and play and let us celebrate and keep this music alive. Look, what do I say to the cynics? I would like to play with Jim Morrison again. But you know what? I can't call him. I'm sorry. He's dead. He's busy. He's in eternity.
Ray Manzarek The Doors
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I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.
Kevin Kline
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We've played it [Milquetoast] a million times. When you play a song that much you sort of become disconnected with the lyrics. It's just another song essentially about people's opinions and being told how to live your life even though they may have less life experience than you have.
Page Hamilton
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I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
Vladimir Horowitz
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Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.
Melissa de la Cruz
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I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
Tom Stoppard
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I always play women I would date.
Angelina Jolie
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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back; I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.
Jon Bon Jovi
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It's an honor to play at the festival. I think what Harbor Beach does for the festival, people will always remember.
Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
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Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.
Quentin Tarantino
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I don't play villains, I play very interesting people.
Alan Rickman
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'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!'
Esther Rolle
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If my music doesn't fit, I understand, ... If I'm to play my music, that's the way it's gonna be.
Kasey Chambers