If you are not playful you are not alive.

My preference is for people who come to rehearsal and get into the ring. I like a muscular actor who's playful.

— Joe Mantello

Hullraisers' and 'Little Mon' both have a joyful, playful tone and you believe that these women really are friends.

— Lucy Beaumont

“Of all animal species, humans are the biggest players of all. We are built to play and built through play. When we play, we…

— Stuart Brown

All this world is but a play... be thou the joyful player.

— Robin Williamson

Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Play in curiosity is where everything happens.

— Andrew Zuckerman

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course…

— James Marsh

Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now…

— Rajneesh

The playful search for beauty.

— Eva Zeisel

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

— Anonymous

I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.

— Bat for Lashes

I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful.

— Susan Sarandon

The American people are incredibly generous and even playful when you open yourself up and feed the media beast until it goes away satisfied.

— Krystal Ball

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good…

— Lin Yutang