Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodie Foster

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

Jodie Foster

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

Jimmy Dean

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Jimmy Connors

There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.

Jimmy Connors

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

Jim Leyland

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if theres media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

Jim Leyland

I've managed 25 years, and I can probably count on one hand players that I didn't really care for, and that's probably thousands of players that I've managed. I think that's pretty good. I love the players and I always will.

Joan Van Ark

I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

Joan Sutherland

I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

George Lopez

You're never going to be a Yankee for a day, or you're never going to be a Laker, but with Pro-Ams, they allow you to feel like you're a professional golfer and play under their conditions.

Emily Post

The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.

Ely Culbertson

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

Emanuel Ax

How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.

Emanuel Ax

I usually only play with very close friends.

Emanuel Ax

When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

Emanuel Ax

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

Elvis Presley

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

Ellie Goulding

I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.

Ellen Hopkins

I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

Elisabeth Shue

I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged.

Elaine Paige

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

John Corigliano

If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.

John Conyers

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.

Joel Miller

Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.

Joan Crawford

Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.

Joan Crawford

Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.

Jimmy Hill

He [Beckham] has two feet, which a lot of players don't have nowadays.

Jimmy Rollins

If you're talented enough and play long enough, and put up numbers, you'll get to the Hall of Fame. That doesn't make you a World Series winner.

Jimmy Rollins

The bottom line is just that Rickey Henderson was my favorite player. His flair, his style-the key word is impact-he's an impact player.

Jimmy Page

The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.

Jimmy Page

I bet you can't play slide piano.

Jim Thome

Every player that plays for any organization, having great fans on your side every night is a great thing.