Play Quotes · Page 267

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

— Roddy McDowall

It was nice to play something that felt a little more muted or internalized in 'The Daughter.'

— Geoffrey Rush

Play with joy, enjoy every moment make sure you enjoy every second you're on the pitch.

— Andreas Pereira

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

— Horace

I would probably lose my mind if I wasn't busy. There's only so many video games I can play.

— Phil Heath

I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight.

— Ricky Gervais

I will play a villain only if the role is a powerful one.

— Babu Antony

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

— Winston Churchill

Over 72 games, you are going to have games where, 'Gosh, I wish we could have had that one back. That was…

— Billy Donovan

I would have liked to have seen Chelsea play with Lampard and Ballack as centre-halves and to have seen what would have…

— Darren Fletcher

If I can't walk, then I can't go. That's just the way I play, no matter if you're banged up or what,…

— Donovan McNabb

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as…

— Robert Knepper

For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but…

— Andrew Whitworth

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began…

— Gyorgy Ligeti

“Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day,…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place…

— Margaret Bourke-White

Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some…

— Andy Wilkinson

Half of my family is in Los Angeles, so my cousin was the first person to play me, like, Snoop Dogg, and…

— Jillian Hervey

I realized that once I graduated from college, there might be a period of time where people might typecast me or be…

— Condola Rashad

Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end,…

— Shirley Henderson

Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it…

— Brit Marling

I badly wanted to play Dr. Aziz but I knew I wasn't going to get it. I didn't go to be interviewed…

— Victor Banerjee

To be fighting at European level, you need players who know how to play in the big games.

— Xabi Alonso

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

— Orson Welles

My dream was to play for Alabama - football, basketball.

— Deontay Wilder

I have always wanted to play at the top of the order.

— AB de Villiers

Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

— Jackie Chan

I feel like I take a lot of pride in the patience that I play with.

— Joe Harris

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

— Will Rothhaar

We all know what my game is, to play hard. Not dirty, but play hard.

— Zaza Pachulia

How many Messis do you have in India if they had the chance to play?

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

— Matthew Green

For me, the wind is the worst weather you can have to play football.

— Bojan Krkic

I love villainous characters; they are so exciting to play. They are so different and challenging.

— Vivek Oberoi

It's a pleasure to play for England, and I will never say no.

— Jack Wilshere

It is all about concentration, and the more games you play, the more you concentrate.

— Jordan Pickford

The dream or the goal was to play in college. That was exclusively my focus.

— Mike Budenholzer

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

— Lester Bowie