Top 1200 Plays Quotes & Sayings

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

Woodie King Jr., in 1970, had started a company called the New Federal Theatre, which was ensconced at the Henry Street Settlement. I did a number of plays there, and I auditioned each time. The plays were mostly new. New York was very fertile ground; there was a plethora of African-American plays being done.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

I have grown up watching plays at Shivaji Mandir and used to participate in plays in school, too.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

My family is all musicians - my dad plays drums, my mom plays flute, my older brother plays drums, my little brother plays drums and piano. For some reason, I didn't get the memo, so I just play bass.

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

For me, it's about making the winning plays, making the right plays, making the basketball plays and being aggressive whether it's on defense or offense.

I like the way Michael Crabtree plays the game. He's strong, he goes up for the ball, he has that mentality to just make plays.

It's too easy to underestimate your audience. But it's not rocket science: bad plays don't get people on seats; good plays do.

Anytime that anyone can create some explosive plays, get first downs, we're going to have more plays on offense.

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

Plays are definitely the most difficult of them all. They are entirely a different category altogether. I don't have the courage to try out plays.

As early as I can remember, I would put on plays with my cousin and make my dad record them. In kindergarten, I started doing the school plays, and it just continued.

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.

Humour plays a vital part in any 'Bhavai' performance and is seen in plays.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.

When I was a kid my father would read Neil Simon plays with me when I was going to bed, as bedtime stories. All of these old plays like The Odd Couple and Lost in Yonkers - funny but corny plays about Jewish New Yorkers in the mid-20th century.

Obviously Javy [Baez] is able to control his emotions, he plays it as it should be, it's a game. That's how he plays it.

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television.

I'd like to be in a position to have plays run through me and share the ball, make plays. Still score, obviously, but make plays, as well.

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience.

This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone in the play.

Eric Clapton was such a great player. He sounds like he's Freddie King or someone like that. He plays the roots of blues and Delta blues. He really affected me with the way that he plays, because he never really plays that many notes.

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.

Every team that plays us plays above their heads. That's because of me.

I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they were influenced by Macbeth, they were also influenced by Nigerian plays I had seen and Village Headmaster, a television drama series I had watched as a child.

Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

Through most of my life, music has been like a radio that plays and plays in my head.

For early plays of mine, I started with character. But I think that's because I hadn't been in theaters; I hadn't worked that much. I'm very interested in character, obviously, but once I started having my plays produced, I became so fascinated by the theatrical experiment and the weirdness of theatrical space, so now all my plays start with space and stage picture and setting - or container is maybe the better way to put it.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

I was brought up in a bohemian household where my dad plays guitar and my mom plays piano just because they love it.

The greatest joy I get is setting up plays for somebody else. I take a lot of pride in helping other people make plays.

I know I can get to the basket whenever I want, but I've got to be able to create some plays, like easy plays.

Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK, I got it. I know what's happening.'

I love Fincher, as he has a great atmosphere and intensity. Also, I grew up watching Hitchcock movies, and there was something elegant in the way he plays with you and plays with the character and tricks you.

Robert Lewandowski is a player who plays in front of the opposing goal, especially with his back to the opponent. He is always attacked, and this is one of the big strength of a striker who plays in this position.

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.

When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays.

I feel like we're very lucky in the sense that Dawes can be the kind of band that plays with Bright Eyes or M. Ward but that also plays with Bob Dylan.

Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.

There weren't many plays for me. A lot of my stats came off broken plays, or when I didn't allow the options to play out and just took the shot.

A big thing for me is trying to work on slowing down and not rushing plays, so I can be able to make plays for my teammates.

It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.

It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays.

The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.

You can say what you want about Carlos Tevez, but when he plays, he plays to win, and he plays for his team-mates.

You run your plays, you know your plays, you study your plays, you study the other team, you do as much as you can, you go to practice, you get in shape, you do what you need to do, and then by the time you get to the game, you know your plays, but they have to feel like they're in your bones. That has to be an unconscious thing, it cannot be conscious. That is everything to me.

I understand the plays, the depth, the routes, the splits and everything. I just feel good that I can make some plays. Definitely, the game's slowed down for me.

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

The plays that I performed in the '70s are not the same plays that I perform today. However, what they have in common is a solid foundation of a story, and good, healthy comedy.