Best Play Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.”

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Author:Diego Luna

“In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.”

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Author:Katie Leclerc

“My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.”

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Author:Katie Leclerc

“I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that I could keep dancing at the level I wanted to. It wasn't like, 'Oh my god, I'll never play the violin again.' I could, but not at the level I wanted. So, I segued into acting, the other thing that was also meaningful to me.”

Way Play Wanted Levels Acting Dancing Meaningful Heal Broke Injured Violin Seventeen Ankles

Author:Kristin Lehman

“I got into acting in high school mainly because I wasn't doing anything else and started to hit a few bumps in the road. And there was a conference with my parents who said either you find something to do with your time or we will. And so, I don't know why I thought this was the thing to do, but I went to audition for the school play.”

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Author:Matt Letscher

“Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.”

Thinking Play Huge Scary Never Expect

Author:Melanie Laurent

“I can't play a character that I am judging.”

I Can Play Character Judging

Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“I honor God that much in the way I play. That's why I never believe in getting tired. I don't even know what that word means.”

Knows Way Believe Mean Play Honor Tired Getting Tired

Author:Ray Lewis

“I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.”

Knows Writing Play Song Stage Band

Author:Adam Levine

“The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.”

Play Chess Setting Settings Pitcher

Author:Al Leiter

“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

“I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.”

Play Used House Stuff Son Musician My Family Guitar Used To Be My Son Annoying Electric Frustrated Garage Acoustics Playing Guitar Metallica Electric Guitar

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

“Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.”

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Author:Leonard Maltin

“My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.”

Play Actors My Favorite Villain Jimmy

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.”

Thinking Should Play Limits Oneself Radio Radio Plays

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“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

“I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.”

Play Adore I Like Him

Author:Mary MacLane

“With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.”

People Years Firsts Humans Play Would Be Able Human Beings Issues Taken Involved Projects Impact Sci Fi Exploring Human Experience Reflecting Envelopes Sci Fi Film

Author:Mary McDonnell

“People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.”

People Thinking Play Actors Ghost Worried

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.”

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Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.”

Thinking Years Play Hate Couple

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.”

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Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.”

Play Would Be Able Fantasy Son Baseball Lifetime Athlete My Son Benches Professional Athlete

Author:Matthew Modine

“American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.”

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Book:The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

Source: The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

“So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.”

Writing Play Actors Acting Skills Incredibles Lovely Fascination Darling

Author:Patrick Macnee

“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.”

Ifs Play Jobs Roles

Author:Paula Malcomson

“I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.”

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Author:Pedro Martinez

“I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.”

People Trying I Can Play Fun Pieces Areas Baseball Having Fun Scream

Author:Pedro Martinez

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

Ifs Want Play Guy Sports Decision Fronts Dad My Dad

Author:Peyton Manning

“We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.”

Children Play Mother Values Asks Nations Roles Building Duty Integrity Drama Equal Commitment India Constitution Complexes Loyalty Nation Building

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.”

Play Stuff Lines Roles Scene Technicians

Author:Jodie Foster

“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

“Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.”

Play Film Miracle Small Miracles

Author:Ron Moody

“I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.”

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Author:Rory McIlroy

“I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.”

People Want Trying Said Play Winning Player Golf Tournaments Rivalry Good Golf Golf Tournaments

Author:Rory McIlroy

“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

“I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.”

Thinking Kind Play Happens Parent Natural Passionate Intense Progression

Author:Jodie Foster

“I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.”

Hard Play Hard Work Play Hard

Author:Vijay Mallya

“I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.”

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Author:Zayn Malik

“I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.”

People Thinking Men Stills Play Tvs Mad Come Up Mad Men

Author:Zosia Mamet

“It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.”

Play Stars Rocks Rock Star

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done.”

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Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.”

Play Ems Cia Fbi Lapd

Author:Dean Norris

“Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.”

Play Guy Actors Winning Fun Awards Bad Guys

Author:Dean Norris

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

Ifs Play Golf Days Off

Author:Dean Norris

“When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.”

People Way Hard Play Would Be Comedy Fronts Timing Stand Up Comedy

Author:Dean Norris

“In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.”

Trying Play Character Film Process Learning Process

Author:Ajay Naidu

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