Plays Quotes

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon!

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

A large percentage of the staff plays both online and here at the Casinos.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

Shortly afterwards, I did a third one to repair the robotic arm of the station. This arm plays a very important role in the ongoing expansion of the station as well as in the deployment of solar panels.

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

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

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.

I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.

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.