Play Quotes - Page 167

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing straight you're not straight anymore, you're bent straight, so it really requires the usual serious, straight-forward analysis and research, looking into it and finding the dramatic function, all of what you do until you feel you've collected enough points to safely and securely play the part.

I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.

To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play in the preparation for war. The number of shameful secrets keeps growing incessantly, boundlessly. How meaningless all censorship taboos become, and how meaningless the consequences for overstepping them, when your life is in danger.

My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

My ideal trident would be myself alongside Rooney and Messi. They are the players who make me dream - not Cristiano.

When you play from the heart, all of a sudden there's no gravity. You don't feel the weight of the world, of bills, of anything. That's why people love it. Your so-called insurmountable problems disappear, and instead of problems you get possibilities.

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.

I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that 'a light' can be built from colour. I learned a great deal about interaction, that 'a blue' in different parts will play all sorts of different roles.

All I can do is go out there and play hard and try and help my team win, and that's what I'm going to keep doing.

Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.

As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

It's important to have balance in your life between work and play.

I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.

Do your best when no one is looking.

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.