Plays Quotes · Page 16

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

— Martin Scorsese

Whenever anybody plays their old team, there's obviously something there.

— Austin Rivers

Every linebacker that plays in the NFL wants to be a starter.

— Spencer Paysinger

I can only control what I can control. I can't control plays called for me.

— Roy Hibbert

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

— Wallace Shawn

I cannot explain my plays. Each must find out for himself what is meant

— Samuel Beckett

Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.

— Tom Stoppard

At the end, the one that plays better is going to win.

— Garbine Muguruza

“What is like chemistry?" "Well. Life." "It's an outrageous farce, Oliver, with an incompetent producer...”

— William Golding

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my…

— Israel Horovitz

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not…

— Arthur Miller

My job is just to make the right play, read the defense, shoot if it's there, and make plays for my team.

— Trey Burke

“Writing stories and plays is an extension of little-kid doll house play and lego play. We all are kids, just older now,…

— Jeanne Voelker

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays…

— Dustin Milligan

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

— Jerry Harrison

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

— Hannah Simone

Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff…

— Rachel McAdams

A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about…

— Yehuda Berg

If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum…

— Phylicia Rashad

I started performing at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and…

— Matisyahu

Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a Carling Cup game in…

— Roman Abramovich

It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the…

— Bill Nighy

There are types of directors and types of work that I'm interested in. I mean, it's a hard thing, isn't it? Because…

— Emma D'Arcy

Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm…

— Stacy London

When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.

— Kenneth Tynan

I'm a sports fan. I'm not just an athlete who plays football.

— Reggie Bush

Because I'm a big guy that can run, I've always thought one of the things I should do is make big plays.

— Demaryius Thomas

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

— Annette Bening

I think if a person plays 'Quantum Conundrum' and they walk away feeling really intelligent and skilled, that's what I want. That's…

— Kim Swift

I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the…

— Rafe Spall

I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a…

— Zosia Mamet

You know, I grew up watching all kinds of films. So, as an adult, I wanted to be involved in all kinds…

— David Schwimmer

I've always been more interested in the audience than I have in the plays. I like that idea of all those people…

— Liev Schreiber

I don't reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It's usually just what plays into what's believable…

— Joel Kinnaman

“It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.”

— Amanda Craig

I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.

— Tom Stoppard

The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries,…

— Michael Mandelbaum

There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I…

— Annie Baker

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

— Thornton Wilder

I'm kind of an old theater guy, so I'm sort of attuned to it. Like, when I go to New York, I…

— Richard Linklater