Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carlin

I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes.

George Carlin

I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.

George Carlin

You get to play with people's little danger zones.

George Carlin

Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.

George Carlin

Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards

Garth Brooks

Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!

Garth Brooks

James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.

Gail Godwin

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

Frank Sinatra

You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.

Frank Gehry

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

Fernando Pessoa

Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

Fernando Pessoa

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

Felix Sabates

All work and no play is not good for the soul

Felicity Jones

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

Fiona Gubelmann

If I could play any superhero, I'd probably want to play Wonder Woman. She's pretty awesome.

Fiona Shaw

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

Fiona Apple

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

Henning Mankell

I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.

Cat Power

If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.

Cate Blanchett

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

Cate Blanchett

No, it's very comforting actually, to know that you're sitting in a long legacy of actresses who've played the role. I'm absolutely all for absorbing all of those influences, so you understand the pedigree of the part as much as you understand the figure in history... because you are playing the part. You don't say: "Gosh, I want to play Peter Sellers..." because you can sort of do that in your own bathroom.

Cassandra Clare

I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours.

George Eliot

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

George Eliot

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

Gary Payton

It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you play better.

Gary Numan

I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.

Gary Oldman

You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

Gary Oldman

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

Frank Capra

Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film.

Frank Iero

It's always awkward to pretend to play. I feel like Ashlee Simpson. Oooh, zing.

Frank Iero

If I couldn’t play, I wouldn’t be alive.

Frank Rich

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.

George Herbert

If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.