Plays Quotes

A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

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

The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.

I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all.

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

Everything feels like you're in slow motion and everything you do seems like it's about two or three plays of what everybody else is doing.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.

I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.

So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.