Top 430 Plays Quotes

I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole.

It wasn’t until I got into seventh grade, I think, that I realized that doing plays might be a fun thing, and so I auditioned for the school play – and got in, as it turned out.

The first job I got was this TV job in this show called ‘The Unusuals.’ Then I did a play called ‘Slipping,’ and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.

It’s been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it’s always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

I just always knew I wanted to be an actor. I gave my Emmy acceptance speech when I was 11. But, I wasn’t allowed to do plays and things like that. It was considered dangerous. My parents didn’t think it was safe for a girl to do that, and they definitely didn’t think it was interesting to participate in the arts.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

One of the things that I’d like to get back to that I did as a younger actor was to work on, you know, a rep season for a summer where you did two or three Shakespeares, and you’d do a couple of either new plays or classic plays, and you did a different one almost every night.

Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.

Zac Efron is like a brother who’s just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn’t scared or nervous, but I didn’t like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

Even if I don’t have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

I’ve always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.

I’ve always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn’t until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.

Improv plays such a huge role in finding great lines – you’ll be surprised at what comes out of your mind inadvertently. A lot of times it’s better than a script you’ve worked out ahead of time.

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

They pay me the big bucks to make the big plays.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

And it’s a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody’s heritage. It’s just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that’s everybody’s heritage.

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it’s like a dialogue.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I’m a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

If you take the ’70s with Blaxploitation pictures, there was a proliferation of black-content films and motion pictures, television, stage plays and so forth at a time when Hollywood was in trouble financially, and it was cheaper to do black films to keep the lights on until they could reestablish themselves.

I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it.

With the Tonys it’s a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

I want the kids to know that it’s not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the NBA. I just want to influence them to work hard and do whatever they want to do in life, whether it’s to be a basketball player or scientist… if they believe in themselves, they can do anything.

My way of playing is very different and Karpov plays very differently as well.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren’t, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I’ve been able to go on and do plays and films.

Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.

You’ve got to make the winning plays at winning time, whether it’s a shot in the clutch or getting a big defensive rebound. Those are the intangibles I try to bring.

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

It’s only 60,000. It’s not a big town. It’s a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

It doesn’t necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don’t stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page.

My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn’t to say that there aren’t parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don’t know them.

I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me to go to college. My grades weren’t exactly spectacular so they figured acting might be a necessary back door into some school.

My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

I’ve known Shawn for several years. And he’s just an amazing talent. He’s a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

I’ve been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn’t feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

I went to Dartmouth College so simply by being an Indian-American woman, I was already so statistically interesting. And then the fact that I didn’t want to do anything science-related, and I wanted to write comedy plays and act little bit – I mean, I became deeply interesting in college because of how rare that was.

I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.

When teams are really out on me, I’m trying to drag them out as much as possible so my teammates can make plays.

Bebo has an opportunity to prove its products and services. Bebo plays in a very competitive space; it has big market share in specific countries. An AIM profile vs. a Bebo profile are very different experiences.

Shaw’s plays are the price we pay for Shaw’s prefaces.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I’d won the lottery.