Play Quotes

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

~ Nelson Mandela

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

~ Muhammad Yunus

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

~ Hugh Jackman

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

~ Ian Mckellen

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

~ Steven Wright

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

~ Conrad Hilton

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life must be lived as play.

~ Plato

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

~ Niall Horan

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.

~ Trieste Kelly Dunn

I play guys who never smile, and I never stop smiling.

~ Michael Joseph Kelly

I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.

~ Pierce Brosnan

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

~ Salma Hayek

What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl.

~ Peter Dinklage

I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.

~ John Cusack

I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.

~ Allison Williams

In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.

~ Alice Mcdermott

It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.

~ Heather Graham

I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine.

~ Rosamund Pike

It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.

~ Matt Mcgorry

I'm drawn to the romantic aspect of a character. It's human emotion. It's much more fun to watch. And it's much more fun to play.

~ Natalie Zea

The relationship with the cast has everything to do with how a performance develops, and in a sense that while you're discovering a play in the course of rehearsal with the director, you're also discovering it with your fellow actors. We're all in it together.

~ Kevin Spacey

My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?

~ Diane Lane

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

~ Warren Beatty

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

~ Neil Gaiman

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

~ Edward Hirsch

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

~ Justin Trudeau

After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

~ Cat Power

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

~ Joe Greene

Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can play till 32 or 34 with same fitness and without injuries, he will come to a point where not even Vivian Richards neither Sachin Tendulkar had such a record.

~ Kapil Dev

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.

~ Paul Gascoigne

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

~ Randy Pausch

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

~ Gael Garcia Bernal

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

~ Oscar Robertson

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

~ Oscar Robertson

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.

~ Brad Renfro

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.

~ Rachel Weisz

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

~ Bill Dickey

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

~ Ryne Sandberg

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

~ Navjot Singh Sidhu