Plays Quotes · Page 15

My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did.

— Angela Bassett

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

— Jeffrey Jones

For the most part, I don't care who plays at my side.

— Jerome Boateng

Have I seen any plays that I've been in? Uh, you know, might be a little weird.

— Paul Dano

You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.

— Katori Hall

Every team that plays us plays above their heads. That's because of me.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Outdoor tennis plays into my strengths a little better.

— John Isner

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

— Elizabeth Ashley

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

— Samira Wiley

I don't want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ…

— Grandmaster Flash

In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other…

— Wallace Shawn

Fashion is intoxicating, and it plays a part in all of our everyday lives. A lot of people use it as a…

— Erin O'Connor

Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you…

— Jane Badler

I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of…

— Alexis Dziena

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

— Rachel Ward

In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner…

— Christopher Fry

If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his…

— Ferran Adria

For me, it's all I've wanted to do. I did local plays and productions, local theater groups and anything that involved it.…

— Colin Morgan

I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw…

— Billy Porter

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to…

— George Hickenlooper

The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don't turn out the way you wanted them…

— Stephen King

Stealing home is one of the most sensational plays in baseball. If the run thus scored is the winning tally, the play…

— Billy Evans

I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' -…

— Jack Whitehall

When I do plays in New York and do eight shows a week, you have the same feeling. Three of them are…

— Richard Ayoade

I continue to be known as a guy that plays really complex, three-dimensional characters.

— Robert Knepper

As players we just have to go out there and make plays.

— Nelson Agholor

I've always enjoyed acting. When we were younger, my sisters and I would put on plays for our parents.

— Serena Williams

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

— Jodie Foster

I make plays. In the air, on the ground, one cut or a million cuts - I don't think it matters.

— LeSean McCoy

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

— Michael Steele

If you get the ball two times, make two plays - make two big plays.

— Sony Michel

I did some plays in high school which I had a good time doing.

— Michael Riedel

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

— Mark Waters

One of the rules of plays, I feel, is to never use an extra word if you don't have to.

— Edward Einhorn

I don't think I've been in a supporting role in any of the plays I've done, ever.

— Penelope Wilton

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

— Jerome Kern

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.

— Marin Hinkle

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.

— John Benjamin Hickey

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

— Stephen Hawking

I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end

— Sugar Ray Leonard