Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Mays

Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

William Sanderson

When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.

Vinoba Bhave

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

Vincent D'Onofrio

So, it's always different. Some stuff, you want to do because it's a part that you've never played. It's always for story. Sometimes there's a story that you really dig, but there's no part that you're interested in. Sometimes you read a story and you say, "I could do that. I've never done that before. I could do play that part."

Vinnie Jones

In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and myself. We're bikers, and I play Billy Wings; I've got all sorts of wings, and you have to watch the movie to find out what the wings are about.

Woody Hayes

The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.

Woody Guthrie

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

Woody Harrelson

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

Woody Allen

Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?

Woody Allen

The less I speak to the actors, the better. And I always hire great people, and I don't want to impose my pre-conceived notions on them. They know how to play it.

William Wordsworth

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

William J. Clinton

If there's grass in the field, play ball!

William J. Clinton

Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.

William Fichtner

Sometimes the scene is a sad scene but you have to play it with a laugh to find out that that doesn't work or that there's really a part of that in it, and that's what rehearsal is for, to take that time.

William Gaddis

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

Will Carling

People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax.

Will Forte

Different scenes call for different acting styles. The kinds of scenes I like most are the ones where you just bury yourself in there. So I wouldn't say that's the only way to be funny, but that's my favorite way to play stuff, to try to put myself in a situation where that kind of acting is necessary.

Will Davis

It's very different. You do so many things in this play. You can't just focus on acting or singing. You have to be good at both. I'm very glad I did this play.

Will Ferrell

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?

Whitey Herzog

The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

Saoirse Ronan

I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.

Samuel Eto'o

The best player in the world; whenever Iniesta is on the pitch he creates a spectacle.

Samuel Eto'o

Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC

Salman Rushdie

Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.

Ryan Phillippe

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.

Waqar Younis

He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.

W. P. Kinsella

After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.

Virginia Madsen

Everything that I play as an actress is a different aspect of me.

Virginia Madsen

You know, we’re not on stage, we’re not doing a play, so we don’t have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience.

Vincent Schiavelli

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

William Christopher Handy

Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day.

William Congreve

I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!

William Cowper

Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.