Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurie Metcalf

I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.

Laverne Cox

So often, trans roles don't even go to trans actors. Most of the fabulous trans roles that have won people Oscars, we didn't get to play. A lot of folks have said we're not trained enough and that we're not prepared to do whatever.

Laura Linney

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

Lance Berkman

I want to play every game of my career in an Astros uniform.

Lance Berkman

When I started to play consistently and produce consistently, that's when I knew that I could compete and do well in the big leagues.

Laini Taylor

We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.

Lisa Leslie

If, by the way I play, I can be a role model or encourage someone else, that would be great.

Lisa Loeb

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

Lisa McMann

Feels like I'm in a play and I don't know all my lines.

Johnny Depp

I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.

Johnny Depp

Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.

John Tukey

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

John Turner

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

James Kirk

The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.

John Sayles

When I read a story or see something play out in front of me I say, how come nobody's made a movie or a television show out of this? This is something that belongs in the conversation. Certainly that's what interests me about a project.

I often tell my students that you can't worry about the end of an improv scene because the end is not up to you. You just play as hard as you can until someone changes the scene. The scene has changedthe end is not up to us.

Mark Teixeira

I didn't realize how much I loved the game until I couldn't play it.

Mark Mulder

I don't see what could be better to play a game and get paid for it.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

I had never worked in that environment where you're able to play.

Nicole Kidman

These different people that I play become the loves of my life.

Nick Johnson

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

Nick Kroll

I tend to play sort of douchey.

Mose Allison

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

Peyton Manning

I don't like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there's an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice.

Peyton Manning

Im happy to volunteer for the American Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet. The Red Cross is an organization that responds to those in need and it is an honor to help them with the lifesaving role they play everyday in communities nationwide.

Peyton Manning

I don't want to retire. I still want to play.

Peter Drucker

The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.

Peter Baker

President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle.

Penelope Wilton

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

Pee Wee Reese

I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.