Play Quotes

• Being what we are, human beings, the natural tendency is that when everybody brags about you, they write good things, you kind of read about it and you back off a little bit. We couldn't play with them last time.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Time
  • Good
  • Tendency

• I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Good
  • Money
  • Game

• I want to play the Super Bowl halftime show in America.

  

  Tones and I
  • Play
  • Halftime

• Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play.

  

  Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones
  • Time
  • Good
  • Play

• I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

  

  Michael Caine
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Screens

• My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Play
  • Controversy

• I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Exciting

• It was important to play because of what we're talking about

  

  Jonny Buckland Coldplay
  • Important
  • Play
  • Talking

• I certainly want to get back to the US to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.

  

  Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
  • Play
  • Back
  • U.S.

• Good big blokes are better than good little blokes. Then again, good little blokes are better than dud big blokes. And dud big blokes should play something other than Rugby.

  

  Bob Dwyer
  • Play
  • Rugby
  • Blokes

• I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Mystery
  • Novel
  • Sympathy

• I told him before the play that if both men went to me, to go to the basket and get a good shot. Things didn't go the way we wanted tonight.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Tonight

• I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Play
  • Soccer

• Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Instruments
  • Know-How

• They played Kobe tough and a little harder than the refs wanted to see.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • See
  • Referees
  • Kobe Bryant

• You just want to play. You don't think about the money, how many followers you've got on Instagram. You just want to make it. You don't understand the demands, how intense it is at times - the scrutiny you're going to get.

  

  Ashley Cole
  • Money
  • Play
  • Demands

• I definitely try to play a common man in my roles so people can identify with my characters, but the truth of the matter is that it doesn't really matter what I do or my lines are, I'm still Zach Braff, and people know I'm better than them.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Men
  • Character

• If the situation presents itself, I'm always going to play as if I want the job. You either play, or get played out.

  

  Billy Cobham
  • Job
  • Play
  • Situation

• One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. A well formed technique, it seems to me, can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Control
  • Study
  • Relation

• It wouldn't be unusual for dad to call on Jim and Steve to play if his regular musicians couldn't show.

  

  Rodney Terence "Rod" Argent Argent
  • Play
  • Musicians
  • Call

• I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Great
  • Stage
  • Sitting

• Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Football
  • Poetry
  • Sport

• I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Firsts
  • Combination
  • Fingertips

• Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Experience
  • Dad
  • Years

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