Play Quotes

• I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.

  

  B. B. King
  • Guy
  • King
  • Kings

• I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Play
  • Never
  • I Don't

• There aren't a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite.

  

  Teresa Palmer
  • Play
  • Opposite
  • Males

• I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really sithere and delineate for you what the thought process is. I can perhapssay that literature, psychoanalysis and theater have been very valuableexperiences that have informed and nourished me along the way.

  

  Harvey Keitel
  • Work
  • Think
  • Read

• I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play - where I could go home if I needed to.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Home
  • Mom
  • Enough

• I think we all realized what was at stake. We had talked about it all week, the big ballgame for us and for them there was a lot at stake. There was a lot riding on it and we didn't play well. I think we take a long hard look at ourselves, and it certainly starts with me.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Long
  • Game
  • Stake

• She only knows headfirst. Shelley knows one way to play, and that's full speed.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Way
  • Play
  • Shelley

• In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.

  

  Stuart Townsend
  • Life
  • Play
  • Guitar

• Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that

  

  Artie Lange
  • Business
  • Play
  • Endorsement

• I would rather do things that I really love with people that I love working with, and to be able to extend that and go and play, it's great. I feel very fortunate.

  

  Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace
  • People
  • Feels
  • Able

• Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Envy
  • Loyal
  • Fiddle

• We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that is the real theater-totranscend them in the manner of play, bymeans of games and irony; it is good to be dirty and bearded, to have long hair,to look like a girl when one is a boy (and vice versa); one must put "inplay," show up, transform and reversethe systems which quietly order us about.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Irony
  • Transform
  • Way Of Life

• There's going to be good plays that happen and bad plays that happen, but at the end of the day, when you have the chance to hit a big play, you have to hit it.

  

  Andy Dalton
  • Play
  • Big
  • Hit

• It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Drama
  • Remarkable
  • Virtuous

• I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

  

  Johnny Unitas
  • Play
  • Confidence
  • Have To

• I don't care if I play on the wing or in the middle. There is no difference.

  

  Alexis Sanchez
  • Play
  • Middle
  • Wing

• I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

  

  Nigel Kennedy
  • Play
  • Enjoy
  • Gig

• Sanders didn't play the first nine games, but he's back and playing at a different level.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Play
  • Games
  • Different level

• An actor said recently that, unless you're a parent, you shouldn't play a parent in a film. I don't know who said it, but I disagree. I understand that maybe there are aspects that you don't understand, or maybe this actor or actress had a really strong recent experience with having their first or second or third born child. I don't know. As a dad, I get that. I get that there is no love like it. But, at the same time, love is love.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Strong

• I can play multiple instruments. I love a cappella. I love barbershop. I love magic.

  

  Vincent Rodriguez III
  • Magic
  • Instruments
  • Cappella

• I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• They're all good-looking. So we don't want to play that card.

  

  Nathan Followill
  • Play
  • Looking
  • Card

• People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

  

  Ellen Langer
  • People
  • Gains
  • Enjoying

• Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

  

  Karel Appel
  • Art
  • Childhood
  • Contact

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