Plays Quotes · Page 9

“What could be worse than being immortal? And still having to behave by the rules?”

— Rameau

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

— Tracy Letts

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

— Yogi Berra

“Invite someone over? No. Nobody plays at my house.”

— Thalia Chaltas

Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.

— Tom Felton

I'm a competitor, and there's always some plays I'm going to look back on and want to have back.

— Cooper Kupp

Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays.

— John O'Hara

Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.

— Mike Nichols

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

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

— Carrie Coon

If you relax too much, the subconscious plays the role; the conscious does something else, rather than the other way around, which…

— Maria Karnilova

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they…

— Dustin Hoffman

I don't reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It's usually just what plays into what's believable…

— Joel Kinnaman

The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries,…

— Michael Mandelbaum

I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.

— Tom Stoppard

When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we…

— Wallace Shawn

I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom,…

— Gin Wigmore

When you're an adult, when times are good, entire years go by in what feels like the space of one season. But…

— Artie Lange

I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch…

— Denis O'Hare

When Seoul hosted the Games in 1988, it became a symbol of the Asian Tigers' ascent onto the world stage. In 1992,…

— Eduardo Paes

I had been doing all my school plays, elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then summer. I'd wanted to act…

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they…

— Jonny Greenwood

One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You…

— Adam Rapp

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

— Lykke Li

“The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.”

— Oscar Wilde

My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.

— August Wilson

For the most part, I don't care who plays at my side.

— Jerome Boateng

My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did.

— Angela Bassett

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

— Jeffrey Jones

Have I seen any plays that I've been in? Uh, you know, might be a little weird.

— Paul Dano

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

— Edith Hamilton

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.

— Michael Gambon

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

— Eve Myles

The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.

— Bela Karolyi

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

— Edward Hall

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

— Judi Dench

I just try to make plays when needed and pick up the loose ends.

— Trevor Ariza

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

— Drew Brees

When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.

— Joe Paterno