Play Quotes

I always play women I would date.

~ Angelina Jolie

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

~ Jenny Shipley

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

~ Courtney Love

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

~ Stan Getz

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

~ Knute Rockne

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

~ Oscar Wilde

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

~ Bill Simmons

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

~ H. G. Wells

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.

~ Tom Petty

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

~ Al Gore

I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

~ Tom Brady

You don't want to pretend that 9/11 ended in 2002 with the first anniversary. So how do you frame the post-9/11 world and play a productive role in discussing it?

~ Jake Barton

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

~ Fred Allen

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

~ Dan Hawkins

Being asked to play 'The Doctor' is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can't wait to get started.

~ Peter Capaldi

It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The dimensions, levels, layers and levels would be incredible to take on.

~ Evangeline Lilly

I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.

~ Mahershala Ali

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

~ Ashley Tisdale

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

~ Henry A. Wallace

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

~ Joan Didion

I always say that polo, for you to pursue a career, mainly any sport, you have to be born in the right place. If you're born in Hawaii, you surf. If you're born in Austria, you probably will ski. If you're born in Argentina, you most likely ride horses and have a chance to play polo.

~ Nacho Figueras

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

~ Fran Lebowitz

Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozarks. I didn't get a chance to burst into movies in 'Body Heat.' My career isn't based on having a 23-inch waist and a big bust, though I do.

~ Bonnie Bedelia

I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

~ Chad Smith

It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

~ Neil Patrick Harris

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

~ Laura Dern

There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.

~ Tiger Woods

When you have the chance to play a Champions League final, you have to win it.

~ Gianluigi Buffon

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

~ Billie Holiday

But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.

~ Steve Spurrier

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

~ Stephen Hawking

God does not play dice.

~ Albert Einstein

I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.

~ Patty Jenkins

I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

~ Art Alexakis

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

~ Johan Huizinga

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.

~ Tony Kushner

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

~ Jonny Wilkinson

I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.

~ Canelo Alvarez

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

~ Ann Hood

My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!

~ Norm Macdonald