Plays Quotes · Page 11

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good…

— Suraj Sharma

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

— Annie Baker

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

— Elia Kazan

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

— Tom Stoppard

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

— Kristin Hersh

All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.

— Mamie Gummer

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

— Michel de Montaigne

The plays that survive the most easily are the ones in which Shakespeare has dug deep into the psychology of people in…

— Adrian Lester

“Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy…

— Eugene O'Neill

You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers…

— Tom Stoppard

It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of…

— Phil Daniels

I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to…

— Laura Ziskin

You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext…

— Horton Foote

Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it…

— Dylan Baker

Every game is decided by one or two plays that teams do or don't make; you've got to make them or else…

— Joe Burrow

All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers...…

— Eugene Ionesco

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the…

— Tom Stoppard

I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really…

— Todd Haynes

I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are…

— John Logan

I think college prepared me at a really high level. High school, you can take some plays off on the defensive end.…

— Trey Burke

Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a…

— Rainn Wilson

When I say, 'I can't stay long, I'm in-between meals,' that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So…

— Louie Anderson

Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn…

— Iain McGilchrist

Exercise plays a huge role in keeping me sane, and that's my primary motivation to 'find time.'

— Jessica Scorpio

It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.

— Drew Brees

My accuracy is a strength of mine, and I have the athleticism to extend plays.

— Daniel Jones

“In a great romance, each basically plays a part that the other really likes.”

— Elizabeth Ashley

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

— David Suchet

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

— Taylor Schilling

The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.

— Richard Greenberg

What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?

— Foo Fighters

I am always a great fan of keeping things on an eye level for comedy because it plays better.

— James Bobin

With the rotations, a lot of them they're not fancy plays.

— Brook Lopez

When you think of amazing plays at third, you think of Brooks Robinson.

— Ryan Zimmerman

I've worn wigs. I've done a few plays where I have to wear a wig because they needed longer hair.

— Stark Sands

When Pogba plays poorly it's when he takes too many touches.

— Owen Hargreaves

Humour plays a vital part in any 'Bhavai' performance and is seen in plays.

— Pratik Gandhi

I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.

— Stephen Mangan

I've never been - and never will be - someone who 'plays the game' with people.

— Andrew Flintoff