Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Walken

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

Christopher Walken

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

Christopher Marlowe

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Christopher Meloni

I don't get called very often to play innocents.

Annie Proulx

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

Angelina Jolie

I always play women I would date.

Andrew Bird

The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.

Andrew Bird

I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.

Andrew Bird

I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.

Andrew Bird

I still play solo shows. And some of those shows are still some of the best, most gratifying shows.

Andrew Bird

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

Amy Acker

Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

Alvin Lee

I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.

Ally McCoist

I'll play for Rangers as long as I can, then spend the rest of my life being depressed

Anne Tyler

... everyone must play his role.

Anna Lindh

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.

Anna Kournikova

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.

Anna Kendrick

I was at awards shows and felt really lost so it was good to play someone who was really lost.

Angela Lansbury

Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older.

Angela Lansbury

Roles came to me. I was very, very lucky in that respect. Great directors, great writers, great producers - they saw something in me that they wanted for their picture or their play or whatever it was, whether it was Edward Albee or whether it was - or Peter Hall, directors. They would come to me, thank God. I was lucky. Lucky, lucky, lucky.

Allison Janney

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

Andrew Strauss

I am extremely proud of everything I have achieved as a cricketer, and I have found myself very fortunate to play in an era when some of English cricket's greatest moments have occurred.

Andrew Strauss

I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me.

Claire Danes

It was a challenge for me to play somebody who was so quiet and receding and depressed because she's also on screen all the time, and she has to remain compelling and entertaining. I was really nervous that people were not going to stay with me while I was just staying behind that bloody counter.

D. A. Carson

The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

D. H. Lawrence

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

Cristina Saralegui

Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

Cullen Jenkins

In a perfect world, you can finish out your career where you start. ... It's one of those things you only have so much control over. You have to see how everything plays out and let the system work its course.

Conor Oberst

We [Desaparecidos] have to make the message and the music and the packaging as appealing as possible - as Taco Bell as possible: mediocre and no one can be offended by it and everyone can sort of enjoy it and we can play it on the radio.

Clint Dempsey

All you can do is play how you know how to play.

Clancy Brown

Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

Danny Huston

I seem to play a lot of losers.