“I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way.” ThinkingWayShouldYearsPlayActorsStageTradition Author:Hugh Jackman
“I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.” PeopleWellsSoulEnoughPlayMadSaneStorytellerVaryPalette Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.” PeopleMatterPlayCharacterFacesPretending Author:Stanley Tucci
“I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world is rocking and cracking open in weird and worrying places. And I think Coriolanus, the play, reflected that.” ThinkingWorldPlayFeltWorryEntityExaminationDysfunctionNationalistic Author:Ralph Fiennes
“From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I'm still doing it. I still love it so that's why I do it.” PeopleStillsPlayWantedGood People Author:Ringo Starr
“Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.” PlayCharacterFunElementsWho I AmPlaying Yourself Author:Octavia Spencer
“I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.” PeopleYearsStillsI CanPlayHelpingBehindsFrontsBandHundredHarderGuitarShouldersNervousOver YouBehind YouAcousticsAcoustic GuitarBombastic Author:Robin Zander
“Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.” WayChildrenPlayCausesTeachingInformationDrawsPressesConclusionUnexpectedTubes Author:Alison Gopnik
“You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.” ThinkingLongPlayShowsComedyDramaBroadsPoignant Author:Josh Peck
“I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on acting. It's like an acting class. And if I go too long without doing a play, I just feel empty. Like approaching a role, I feel like the pool is very shallow, like I'm drawn from it. So I need to come back and do a play, fortunately I've been able to, every couple of years.” IfsNeedsFeelsYearsLongPlayAbleViewsActingClassRolesCoupleEmptyTheaterPoolVacationShallowActing Classes Author:Alan Tudyk
“My film school is making movies. But, I do think that being an actor has served me immensely, as both a writer and director, in terms of knowing what is playable and what will be fun to play, for actors, and also how to communicate to actors on set, and not screw them up and get them in their head.” ThinkingPlaySchoolFilmActorsFunTermKnowingDirectorsCommunicateScrewsFilm School Author:Josh Radnor
“I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.” PeopleWayWantPlayRelatePlaying MusicInteracting Author:Avey Tare
“I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.” IfsWayWellsPlayPiecesWrittenFormalClassical Music Author:Andrew Bird
“I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.” PlayShowsRecordsDisappear Author:Andrew Bird
“Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been so successful were it not for Daniel's [Kessler] insight into how things really work. Daniel was the one who was diligently saying, "We should make a demo, send it out, play shows but not too many shows, get on shows with touring bands that are coming to New York."” IfsKnowsShouldPlayShowsSuccessfulNew YorkBandInsightTouringDemos Author:Paul Banks
“"I want to stay alive in pretty much 90% of my movies. Slaughtering isn't exactly what I'm going for, but I will play edgy for sure."” WantPlayAliveStaying AliveEdgy Author:Miley Cyrus
“I could always hold a melody, but I was never like, I'm going to be a singer. So I'm able to use that when I write. I'm actually playing the beat with my voice. Instead of thinking about coming up with melodies, it's like filling in the instruments. So sometimes it's better to have beats with less melodies in them, because then I can play more with my vocals.” ThinkingWritingI CanSometimesPlayUseAbleVoiceBeatsInstrumentsSingersMelodyFillingVocalFilling In Author:Kid Ink
“I want to be the band everyone knows that goes hardest. Plays the hardest, parties the hardest, lives the hardest, loves the hardest, does everything the hardest, harder than anybody else.” KnowsWantDoePlayPartyBandHarderHardest Author:Austin Carlile
“I was at awards shows and felt really lost so it was good to play someone who was really lost.” PlayShowsLostFeltAwardsAward Shows Author:Anna Kendrick
“For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.” WellsPlayFilmActors Author:Emma Watson
“I got to playing villains-I don't know how. I think it's like anything else, in the movies in particular that if you establish yourself as something and you're lucky enough to keep getting hired. You know, there are guys who play the guy who gets the girl, guys who are the best friend of that guy, there's the funny guy, the villain.” IfsThinkingKnowsEnoughPlayGuyGirlKnow HowParticularLuckyVillainThat GuyFunny Guy Author:Christopher Walken
“Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.” KnowsLittlesPlayDeceiving Author:Steve Spurrier
“I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I just wanted to play because it gets you girls.” PlayWantedGirlBasketballMy Future Author:LeBron James
“Having children has helped me become a better actor because they remind you to play make believe. It's the ease and naturalness of their beings. They just play and it's completely real for them at the time. As an actor, if we do it well, we make you believe.” IfsBelieveWellsChildrenRealPlayActorsEaseMake BelieveHaving Children Author:Matthew McConaughey
“Every time I am on the field I am a threat to make a big play. I am going to do my job every day and can be relied upon.” PlayBigsJobsFieldsThreat Author:Eric Thomas
“I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real.” RealPlayWantedActorsFunRolesQueens Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.” PlayKidsYoungParentGrowing UpGrowingAuditionsBostonEntertainersDowntown Author:Mindy Kaling
“I never pick a film based on the genre; I choose the characters I play. I will think it through thoroughly - whether I am the best person to play the character, able to excel in it and match with the other characters.” ThinkingPersonsPlayCharacterAbleFilmPicksGenreBest PersonI Am The Best Author:Rain
“The videos are sometimes the only way for people across the country and different places to see and hear the music. They may not get the same radio stations or they don't get the same TV channels, they don't have the same MTV that plays the same music. People will use to the Internet and that's why YouTube and stuff like that is so important.” PeopleWayMayImportantDifferentCountrySometimesPlayUseStuffTvsInternetRadioVideoStationsYoutubeDifferent PlaceMtvRadio Stations Author:Kid Ink
“Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right.” PlayRolesManagement Author:Meek Mill
“Nothing is easy, and life can be extremely tough, but there's always a yin to the yang, so to speak. It's up to you to seek it out, embrace it, and live happily ever after. No matter how bad the hand you've been dealt may seem, there's always a way to play it.” WayMayMatterPlayHandsSeemsSpeakEasyToughEmbraceUp To YouHappily Ever AfterEver AfterYangNothing Is Easy Author:Alex Gaskarth
“I started to find that music was something that really brought a lot of joy into my life, and it was sort of cool because I discovered that I had a gift for it, too. So the stuff I would listen to I could play along, I could sing along.” PlayJoyStuff Author:Corey Taylor
“Don't play an attitude; don't play a guy who's negative. Play a guy who's not trying to sell anybody on anything, he's just saying how it is and if you want to come by what he's thinking, you're welcome. If you do not, then do not.” IfsThinkingWantTryingPlayGuyAttitudeNegativeSellsWelcomeJust SayingYou Re Welcome Author:Matthew McConaughey
“I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.” PlayFunSportsEnjoyWatchesWifeBedMy WifeThumbsSuckerDiversionCindy Author:John McCain
“In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.” MeanPlayFiveWeekSixTheaterGreat ThingsGet BetterMinimum Author:Christopher Walken
“Usually in the first performances I'm completely panicked. And I pull myself together. By the time you get to the end of the play, you really start to have fun.” FirstsEndsPlayTogetherFunPerformancesHaving Fun Author:Christopher Walken
“I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a desire to play and write songs. I've never wanted to be a career musician. But I still love to play and write. It's a big part of who I am.” WritingStillsPlayFactsBigsWantedDesireSongCareersMusicianWho I AmSongwriters Author:John Congleton
“When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and they still walk away with the belief that they're not being represented in Congress, that there's no trust in the executive branch.” PeopleLooksStillsPlayPoliticalBeliefLanguageProcessWalksCongressBranchesExecutivesSpinningExecutive BranchNo Trust Author:David Gregory
“Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.” WantRealSometimesPlayLevelsComedyInstinctReal You Author:Robin Williams
“He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists.” PlayArtistVideoAfrican AmericanMtv Author:Spike Lee
“I want to always be youthful and have the energy to run around and play hide and seek, which is one of my favorite games.” WantPlayRunningGamesEnergyMy FavoriteHide And Seek Author:Michael Jackson
“I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play.” FeelsBelieveLongPlayI BelieveBreakFairsI Believe InAlways BelieveFair Play Author:Tom Brady
“It's humbling to know that you have fans all over America and all over the world and they want you to play on their respective basketball team. It's very humbling that they respect the way I play the game of basketball. I can't discredit that. I can't say I don't enjoy it because you put in a lot of hard work to have fans. And for me to be a role model and for me to have fans all over is great. It's very humbling.” KnowsWorldWayWantI CanHardPlayAmericaGamesEnjoyRolesTeamFansHard WorkBasketballModelsRole ModelsHumblingBasketball TeamDiscredit Author:LeBron James
“A woman plays such an active role in society. And today, the woman who influences fashion is not that very rich woman who sits at home and polishes her nails. It's the one who works, who is a doer, who does things by dressing. She's very strongly projecting an image of herself as an individual.” DoePlayHomeTodayIndividualRolesRichInfluenceFashionActiveVery StrongNailsDressingsPolishDoersRich Women Author:Oscar de la Renta
“The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.” PeopleIfsHardPlayRealitySituationComedySeriousWallRedUltimateBallsTragedyLivelyBounceRubberUltimate Reality Author:Mel Brooks
“The first role I ever played I had the lead and it's pretty much stayed that way, though people take great relish in calling me a character actor, which I am. There are a lot of short parts I could play, but I only do them when they are like this ("A Few Good Men"), central to the idea of the movie.” PeopleWayFirstsIdeasPlayCharacterActorsRolesCallingRelishCharacter Actors Author:Jack Nicholson
“It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created.” ThinkingWorldKindPlaySongMiraclePocketsDevices Author:Trent Reznor
“Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.” WayWellsPlayJobsLeaderTeamCaptainsBeing A Leader Author:Andrew Whitworth
“I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's your homeland or when you're traveling. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life.” PeopleThinkingDonePlayUsedNormalHomelandParts Of Life Author:Aaron Rodgers