Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trevor Linden

Everybody wants to play in the playoffs. You don't know how good the good times were until you hit the bad times. But sometimes success is just around the corner.

Trevor Nunn

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

Tracy Letts

I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.

Vera Wang

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

Venus Williams

If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.

Venus Williams

If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

Robin Tunney

I usually play disenfranchised youth

Robin Williams

When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in.

Robin Williams

The world is open for play, [that] everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way.

Robert Wagner

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

Robert Redford

I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.

Robert Schumann

You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.

Robert Schumann

Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

Robert Schumann

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

Robert Schumann

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

Robert Pires

I did not dive and I am not a cheat. That is not the way I play.

Robert Pinsky

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

Robert Plant

The essence of Bonham is what he didn't play rather than what he did play - what he left out.

Robert Plant

I want to play tennis and fornicate.

Robert Littell

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

Robert Loggia

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God that'd be a boring career.

Robert Loggia

We rehearsed our Scarface to the nines. Long period of rehearsal, so that by the time we started to shoot, it was almost like doing a play. We all had a grand time doing it. It was a wonderful cast.

Sarah Lewis

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

Sarah Kane

But you have friends. You have a lot of friends. What do you offer your friends to make them so supportave. What do you offer your friends to make them so supportave what do you offer. " ...if I could remember any more of my lines I'd add them so basically this is a preface to the whole play. I would like to quote the whole play. Currently my mind is afraid to remember the play.

Sarah McLachlan

I play piano every day.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.

Samuel West

If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

Samuel West

I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

Sanath Jayasuriya

It is very unlikely that [Lasith Malinga] would be able to play in the World Cup

Sandra Bernhard

Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.

Sarah Ruhl

I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

Wallace Stevens

The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.

William Herschel

I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.