Plays Quotes

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time.

My fault now is making my plays too short.

Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

I go to screenings, then plays, then after-parties, then clubs.

I'd like to improve on running plays. I want to see if I can hurt some more people. To me, I don't think I'm out there hurting enough people.

But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs.

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

I don't like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit.

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.

The one overall structure in my plays is language.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.

Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors.