Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danny Kaye

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

Danny Elfman

In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here.

Daniel D. Palmer

Study first, play afterwards.

Daniel Dennett

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth , and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other

Dan Castellaneta

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

Dan Buettner

So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

David Fincher

I want stuff to play as wide as possible. I want to be able to see... if I could play the whole thing in a master and it could be compelling enough, that'd be great. Then it simplifies my day, it simplifies life for the actors when you could just focus on that. But by the same token I don't want to be forced into coverage. So I want it to be as good from every angle and I need to get as many of the kind of shadings that I want from every angle.

David Ayer

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

Dashiell Hammett

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

Dave Brubeck

You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time.

Dave Brubeck

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

Dave Brubeck

When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.

Dave Brubeck

Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.

Darren Criss

No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live. As long as it's live, it's the best because there's sort of an immediacy to connection between an audience and a performer, whereas where you do film or television, you're at the whim of so many different forces.

Dawn French

Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

David Spade

I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.

David Platt

David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals. (on David Johnson)

David Lynch

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

David Hare

Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass.

David Hare

It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?"

David Hasselhoff

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

David Carradine

Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

Curtis Granderson

You need something that no one else is using. And something that is clean enough to play around audiences.

Curtis Granderson

Whenever I get a chance, I'm trying to take the extra base and make them make a play on me. I'm not going to stop looking for the extra base unless the scoreboard tells me.

Curtis Armstrong

I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV.

Corey Haim

I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with.

Corey Taylor

I started to find that music was something that really brought a lot of joy into my life, and it was sort of cool because I discovered that I had a gift for it, too. So the stuff I would listen to I could play along, I could sing along.

Corey Taylor

I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.

Daniel Tosh

I'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range.

Andre Rieu

Contrary to popular opinion, classical music does not have to be enjoyed amid exclusive circles, there need not be any snobbishness attached to it. It's there for everyone. I play for the people.

Andy Murray

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

Andy Murray

Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.

Andy Murray

I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.