Plays Quotes · Page 8

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

— Alan Bennett

When plays present themselves, I can't miss 'em. I got to make 'em.

— Aaron Donald

A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.

— Geoffrey West

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.

— Alan Alda

I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

— Garry Wills

Now I see why everybody who plays for him doesn't like him.

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Drew Brees

I know that there are no famous 'Doug Harvey plays.' And I'm proud of that.

— Doug Harvey

You always have to lie. I've been in plays that people don't enjoy and I pray that they lie to my face…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped…

— Michael Bolton

Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK,…

— Mike Nichols

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

— James Merrill

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

— David Ives

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a…

— Mercedes Ruehl

People in their early 20s are not often considered the target demographic for new plays; musicals have had much more success in…

— Paul Downs Colaizzo

I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do…

— Michael Ritchie

Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity…

— John Montgomery Ward

I'm probably most proud of the plays that I've written just because as the playwright, you know, you're God. You get to…

— John Buffalo Mailer

You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle,…

— Harbhajan Singh

You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman.…

— Athol Fugard

I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that…

— Adam Rapp

I've seen an awful lot of plays that I'd read before they were put into production and been shocked by what's happened…

— Edward Albee

I was always fast; I was always racing guys that were older than me and beating them, so I always had speed.…

— Adrian Peterson

In defense of games, I want to point out that the writing in plays, including everything by August Strindberg and The Lion…

— Erik Wolpaw

When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.

— Joe Paterno

Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.

— Adam Driver

Now, games have been democratized. Everyone plays games.

— Chris DeWolfe

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

— Charles Grodin

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

— Alan Alda

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

— Blythe Danner

Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

— Christine Baranski

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

— Burton Cummings

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

— George Cole

Skrillex is dope. He plays everything. It's amazing what he does.

— Mustard

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

— Torrey Smith

I'm a baller. Put me in the position to make plays, I'm going to make plays.

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

Everybody plays to be in October and be in a playoff race.

— Juan Soto

I think the really great movies and plays are ones that haunt you or disturb you.

— Karl Glusman

There are going to be losses. There are going to be bad plays. There are going to be mistakes.

— Carson Wentz

People like the way dreams have of sticking to the soul.

— Stephen Schwartz