Play Quotes - Page 275

I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.

I have to play every day in order to keep absolute control over my form.

The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story, and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.

I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play!

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.

If u come to Sri Lanka you will find that DHONI has more fans than any other Srilankan player.

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

Messi is the best player in the history of football, and that’s why I prefer Barça over Real Madrid.

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

I don't believe a player is ever a finished product.

Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be a team player.

I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well how to play it, apart from little technicalities like the accent.

How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.

I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

I think it’s important for me to play well and set the tone.

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.