Direction Quote by Harry Hadden-Paton

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you…

— Isabelle Huppert

Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.

— Frank Caplan

The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had…

— Arthur Miller

Is a gay play a play that has sex with other plays?

— Harvey Fierstein

a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide…

— Glenda Jackson

Play is experimenting with chance.

— Novalis

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

— Ben Jonson

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

— Katie Salen

Break it down dicky downdown. Girl don't even play

— Mike Posner

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by…

— Ian Bogost

There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters…

— Brander Matthews