Plays Quotes · Page 15

When you think about trying to make plays you usually don't, and I think that's important.

— Mac Jones

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

— Mickey Rourke

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

— John Patrick Shanley

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

— Kevin Spacey

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

— Kristin Hersh

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

— Tom Stoppard

All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.

— Mamie Gummer

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous…

— Marian Seldes

I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an…

— Odeya Rush

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

— Marcia Angell

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written…

— J. B. Priestley

I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that…

— Jason Katims

You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new…

— Aziz Ansari

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a…

— Jandy Nelson

'Rhye' clearly plays with notions of sexual identity, and it has made a concerted effort to keep its own identity mysterious. Its…

— Will Hermes

Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have…

— Vaclav Havel

I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and…

— Felix Dennis

There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when I was growing…

— Garry Hynes

I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wouldn't rewrite years…

— Horton Foote

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

When I say, 'I can't stay long, I'm in-between meals,' that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So…

— Louie Anderson

I think college prepared me at a really high level. High school, you can take some plays off on the defensive end.…

— Trey Burke

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good…

— Suraj Sharma

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

— Elia Kazan

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

— Annie Baker

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

— David Suchet

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

— Taylor Schilling

The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.

— Richard Greenberg

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

— Drew Brees

Exercise plays a huge role in keeping me sane, and that's my primary motivation to 'find time.'

— Jessica Scorpio

My accuracy is a strength of mine, and I have the athleticism to extend plays.

— Daniel Jones

“In a great romance, each basically plays a part that the other really likes.”

— Elizabeth Ashley

When you think of amazing plays at third, you think of Brooks Robinson.

— Ryan Zimmerman

When Pogba plays poorly it's when he takes too many touches.

— Owen Hargreaves

Humour plays a vital part in any 'Bhavai' performance and is seen in plays.

— Pratik Gandhi

I've worn wigs. I've done a few plays where I have to wear a wig because they needed longer hair.

— Stark Sands

I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.

— Stephen Mangan