Plays Quotes · Page 16

Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.

— Eve Myles

There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the…

— Timothy West

I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.

— Jessie J

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays;…

— Hannah Kent

I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to…

— Robert Wilson

I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the…

— John Patrick Shanley

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to…

— Philippe Petit

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

— Vladimir Kramnik

I loved plays, I loved films, but I had no desire to act until I had just put out my album 'Like…

— Common

We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays…

— Caroline Dhavernas

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on…

— James Wolk

I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before.…

— Jacki Weaver

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope…

— Evelyn Glennie

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I…

— Christopher Durang

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

— Robert Knepper

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

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

— Penelope Wilton

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill…

— Denis Johnson

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

— Austin Rivers

Frankly, seeing my plays with an audience is something I do with gritted teeth; I find the experience very difficult. I love…

— Richard Greenberg

Cristiano always plays well.

— Rui Patricio

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

— Amanda Craig

I'm sure you have a hole at your course where you love to hit the tee shot. You can't wait to get…

— Ernie Els

I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting…

— Wallace Shawn

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