Best ifs & play Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Play Beautiful Clear Pieces Orchestra

Author:Kurt Masur

“That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.”

Ifs Knows Play Feelings Used Fall Tunes Mary Minors Fall Into Place

Author:Marian McPartland

“If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.”

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Author:Paula Malcomson

“My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.”

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Author:Peyton Manning

“When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.”

Ifs Knows Feels Play Feelings Sick Down And Stomach

Author:Raine Maida

“I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Play Actors Mistake Audience Don't Believe Work Out I Don't Believe You

Author:Richard Madden

“If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.”

Ifs Feels Play Light Morning Minutes Fruit Eggs Breakfast Lunch Afternoon Bananas Sluggish Carbs Porridge

Author:Rory McIlroy

“If I have a day off I will play golf.”

Ifs Play Golf Days Off

Author:Dean Norris

“I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.”

Ifs Play Games Worry Likes

Author:David Ortiz

“If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.”

Ifs Knows I Can Play Body Able Levels High Level

Author:David Ortiz

“I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.”

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Author:Vanessa Lengies

“At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.”

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Author:Adepero Oduye

“If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.”

Ifs Two Play Parent Fire Adults Standing

Author:Cat Power

“I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.”

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Author:Tyler Posey

“If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.”

Ifs Different Play Able Cold Musical Singers Different Things Muddle

Author:Elaine Paige

“How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.”

Ifs Way Play Asks Wife Depends Golf My Wife Ask Me Cricket

Author:Ricky Ponting

“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.”

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Author:Amy Ray

“It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase.”

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Author:Angela Ruggiero

“I don't put any rules to my style; I think fashion is something that you should play with... even if you make a mistake, it's okay, it's only fashion.”

Ifs Thinking Should Play Mistake Fashion Style Okay

Author:Anja Rubik

“I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.”

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Author:Mark Ruffalo

“If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.”

Ifs Knows I Can Play Whole Film Interest Wonder Watches Know How Sun Magic Creation Picks Library Magazines Museums Sun Set

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.”

Ifs Want Play Games Telling The Truth

Author:Scott Ritter

“Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.”

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Author:Wayne Rooney

“I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.”

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Author:Samantha Stosur

“When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.”

Ifs World Littles Play Guy Universe Deals Band Casts Crew

Author:Katey Sagal

“It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.”

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Author:Mark Strong

“It's more frustrating. My expectation probably wasn't that I'd play [during the playoffs], but I was just trying to make sure that if there was any chance that it was possible to come back that I was ready and that I'd done everything I could to be ready. It's frustrating, disappointing. But can't really control any of that.”

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Author:Sidney Crosby

“You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the team, then we have a functioning unit. If we have a lot of hotshots who want attention, you won't really play that well.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.”

Ifs Mind Self Play Sports Player Health Buddhism Participation Sense Of Self Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you write because you can't not write. The rest is show-business. I can't state that too strongly. Just write - worry about the rest of it later, if you worry at all. What matters is what happens to you while you're writing the story, the poem, the play. The rest is show-business.”

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Author:Peter S. Beagle

“Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.”

Ifs Thinking World Littles Said Stills Play Kids Parent Play Dates

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.”

Ifs Play Shut Up

Author:Marat Safin

“I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.”

People Ifs Want Play Great People

Author:Raphael Saadiq

“I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.”

Ifs Want Play Acting Teacher Car Salesman Acting Teachers Car Salesman

Author:Aaron Tveit

“Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.”

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Author:Aaron Tveit

“For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.”

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Author:Veronica Webb

“Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.”

Ifs Said Play Night Levels Player Who You Are Every Night

Author:Dominique Wilkins

“It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.”

People Ifs World Should Believe Hard Play Walks Perfect Fantasy Ideals Fantasy Worlds Retouching

Author:Gemma Ward

“If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.”

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Author:Samuel West

“I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.”

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Author:Angus Young

“I feel like a new person. I learned how to deal with people when I wasn't a football player. I always wondered how they'd react to me, if they'd respect me. I found out I have other attributes that I like-and that others like. The injury made me a lot more mature. I have a better grasp of reality in life. I'm more patient and giving. I'm a lot closer to my family and more team oriented. I'm so much stronger emotionally. I have proven to myself that I can overcome the most dreaded injury in football. It's almost like dying and realizing life has been given back to me. I can't wait to play.”

“I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.”

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Author:Keith Millard

“If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.”

“If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!”

Ifs Play Dresses

Author:Matt Lucas

“If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.”

Ifs Want Play Dies Asks

Author:Steve Lacy

“If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.”

Ifs Play Humanity Acting Missing Havens Safe

Author:Brit Marling

“If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.”

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Author:Christian Marclay

“Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I always am convinced I'm going to be fired. I'm like, 'I don't remember how to act. I don't know how to do this.' And, it's just a very slow process, and then, all of a sudden, it's just there one day. I still don't understand how it happens.”

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Author:Cristin Milioti

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