Play Quotes - Page 110

Leo [Messi] is the best player of all time - better than Pele, Maradona or Cruyff. There have been some great teams in history - Pele's Brazil, Cruyff's Ajax, Sacchi's Milan - but in the past 20 years this Barcelona team is the best.

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game - if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.

The lights must never go out, The music must always play

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

We have been in recess since July, and during that time there has been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought to be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.

Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community must share in the course of a [scientific] revolution. Revolutions should be described not in terms of group experience but in terms of the varied experiences of individual group members. Indeed, that variety itself turns out to play an essential role in the evolution of scientific knowledge.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

If you're not frustrated that you're not playing football then you shouldn't be playing football

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

The play is not in the words, it’s in you!

As a tennis player you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.