Plays Quotes · Page 11

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

— Garbine Muguruza

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

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Samuel Beckett

I don't mind watching plays once in a while, but as long as I don't have to be in them.

— Alan Arkin

I need all the energy I can to go out and make plays.

— A. J. Green

My way of playing is very different and Karpov plays very differently as well.

— Vladimir Kramnik

Especially if you're a good receiver, nobody plays at all-the-way 100 percent.

— Mike Evans

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

— Roy Hibbert

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

— Thornton Wilder

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

— Rita Dove

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't…

— Wallace Shawn

From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor.…

— Wallace Shawn

I'd done plays in middle school, done some for the church in high school, but I had no intention of ever being…

— Jovan Adepo

I've been writing plays since the third grade. The biggest difference now is that professionals act in them rather than eight year…

— Colette Freedman

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

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

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real…

— Beau Willimon

I'm a New Zealand actor, and I really want to be doing our stuff here, and our stuff includes plays from overseas.…

— Peter Hambleton

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage…

— Ken Stott

I'd love to have written a film and it to be regarded as good. I'd just like to be doing things that…

— James Corden

“I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I…

— Alison Larkin

“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing…

— Tim Cummings

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew…

— Tom Riley

Back when you were doing plays like 'The Miracle Worker,' you had 20, 25 people in the cast. When you go to…

— John Patrick Shanley

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

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.

— Abe Lemons

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

— Al Madrigal

I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row.

— Rupert Friend

You can have an all-star team but not everyone plays at an all-star level.

— Diana Taurasi

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

— Trevor Nunn

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

— Andre Holland

My job is to make plays that come my way. I don't look at roles or labels.

— Nelson Agholor

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

— Virat Kohli

You must be confident and on top of all the plays you call.

— Owen Farrell

I'm aggressive. Sometimes that plays to my benefit, and sometimes it doesn't.

— Davis Webb

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.

— Michael Dorn

I've had quite a few plays where I've just dominated the guy across from me.

— Mike Daniels