Plays Quotes · Page 9

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

— Alan Alda

The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.

— Jim Otto

I'm really an actor first. I'd love to do more straight plays.

— Shuler Hensley

There are no plays run for your sake as a defender - you just have to want it.

— Ben Wallace

I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

— Mike Nichols

“When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win.”

— Lionel Suggs

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

— Justin Theroux

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

— John Lithgow

I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which…

— Carrie Coon

Mostly, theater becomes blander and blander as everyone wants the same thing they saw before. The good plays are the ones that…

— Roger Rees

Acting was always something I loved doing, but I didn't know that I would pursue it professionally. I really loved doing plays…

— Jesse Johnson

That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always…

— Cara Delevingne

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to…

— Wendy Wasserstein

While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on…

— Peter Agre

In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing…

— Tom Stoppard

My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt,…

— William Butler Yeats

As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm…

— Harold Pinter

If it's not in New York, let's say it's in St. Louis, then they've got to find a place or get with…

— Ray Walston

“I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array…

— Tim Cummings

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

Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays…

— Mike McCarthy

Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays,…

— Michael Cristofer

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

Plays are just all sort of playful asides, and there's a great deal of reference here to Greek mythology, plays, and dramas.…

— Lauren Groff

You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.

— Jill Paice

I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

— Abe Lemons

Once you get a couple good plays, you get confidence and it carries over.

— Stephen Gostkowski

I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.

— Joe Anderson

The trouble with plays these days is that they're too easy to understand.

— Robert Alan Aurthur

Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.

— Ban Ki-moon

You mess around with love, Then when your serious love plays around with you.

— Emely Tavarez

I really miss so much being at the theater and being able to do plays.

— Phil Dunster

All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

— Edward Albee

Traditionally, I like to watch my plays from the very back.

— Stephen Karam

I love acting. I was one of those dudes that was always in the plays in the church and at school.

— Lil Rel Howery

I have grown up watching Marathi plays and craved to be a part of it.

— Mithila Palkar

Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.

— Brad Hall

He plays with a style with which I am not personally familiar.

— Jack Nicklaus

There was a drama club in our high school, and I just did plays.

— Holly Hunter

Of all the plays in baseball, stealing home is by far the most exciting.

— Cheech Marin