Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Alan Watts

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Alan Rickman

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Alan Rickman

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

Alan Bennett

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

Alan Bennett

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

Alan Bennett

I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.

Alan Ayckbourn

Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.

Alan Alda

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.

Alan Alda

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.

Al Sharpton

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

Al Pacino

I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sense of control, of holding back. The stage is different ; there's more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.

Al Pacino

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

Al Lopez

The youngsters coming up now just go through the motions necessary to make the play. They should bounce around a little, show some life and zip. It adds a little action and gives the fans something to look at rather than the monotonous routine, no matter how perfectly the play is made.

Al Hirt

Rich could play way better than Krupa.

Al Leiter

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

Al Barlick

I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect.

Chris Barber

We play happy music and we make people happy, that's why they like us

Chris Burke

I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.

Chris Bosh

Eventually, people are going to find out I can play.

Chord Overstreet

I can play the harmonica with my nose.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love the spontaneity of plays and of being onstage, because that's an energy that you can't really fabricate in movies.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.

Chico Hamilton

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

Chico Hamilton

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

Chick Corea

Every time I see a musician - it doesn't matter what age - that inspires me, there's always a secret little wish that maybe we'll play together, because that's how I learn and grow and so forth, you know. But hopefully there's a lot more.

Edward Hirsch

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive play, expressive word play, there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

Eddie Marsan

It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

Eddie Murphy

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

Eddie Izzard

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

Earl Wilson

He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

David Duval

I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.