Plays Quotes · Page 10

Spectacular plays just happen. That's just part of the game.

— Shawn Kemp

I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.

— Bob Seger

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

— Christian McKay

“Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every man plays many roles. So far, I have played father the best.

— Dhanush

Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

— Michael Gambon

I hate when a batsman plays a pull shot off my bowling.

— Mohammad Amir

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

— David Gower

Men are more likely to be introverted than women are, but it's really very slight. But the real difference I think is…

— Susan Cain

I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a…

— Jon Lovitz

I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in…

— Joe Mantello

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

— Marcia Angell

I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an…

— Odeya Rush

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written…

— J. B. Priestley

I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that…

— Jason Katims

You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new…

— Aziz Ansari

I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a…

— Damian Marley

“Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what…

— sarah ruhl

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the…

— Lee Hall

I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high…

— Carrie Brownstein

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra…

— Leon Theremin

'Rhye' clearly plays with notions of sexual identity, and it has made a concerted effort to keep its own identity mysterious. Its…

— Will Hermes

I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain,…

— Eddie Marsan

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to…

— Daniel Hannan

There are definitely plays that I wish that I could have back.

— Ryan Tannehill

Whatever Paul Giamatti plays, Paul Heyman could also read for it.

— Edge

My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

— Wallace Shawn

I'm not someone who plays a part for the press junket.

— Kirsten Dunst

He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]

— George Herbert

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

— Jonathan Swift

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

— James Heckman

Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

— Adam Levine

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

— Jeff Goldblum

I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.

— LaMarr Woodley

There will always be cases where one player plays, and another doesn't.

— Niko Kovac

I began my career with Gujarati and Hindi plays in 1973.

— Paresh Rawal

I hardly ever see new plays. They don't have the audacity and daring that they used to.

— Steven Berkoff

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

— George Jean Nathan

And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.

— Neil LaBute

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

— August Wilson