Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jake Bugg

I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.

Jake Owen

I'm from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I'm definitely always up for that.

Jake Gyllenhaal

In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I don't have a "I want to play this or that," I just don't have that. I've never been like that.

Henry Rollins

It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

Henry Rollins

Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.

Henry Rollins

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Henry Rollins

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

Henry Adams

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

Henry Adams

The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and the materialism of today, were all emanations of divine thought, doing their appointed work. It was the duty of the church to deal with them all, not as though they existed through a power hostile to the deity, but as instruments of the deity to work out his unrevealed ends.

Henry Adams

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

Henry Adams

My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

Henry A. Kissinger

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

Helen Hayes

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

Henry Cavill

To play Bond, though, and then for the world to perceive you in a certain way, is very different from playing Superman. Bond is not this ideal figure.

Heather Mitts

Some of the players are known as scorers or assists. I guess what I am known as being is an ironwoman.

Henry David Thoreau

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

Mandy Moore

I wanted to be an actor and I wanted to be a performer. Like Hugh [Grant] said earlier, we might all have this weird gene. Hopefully I will continue to have the talent to allow that gene to play itself out for as long as it can.

Mandy Moore

I grew up on Nintendo. Mario was my best friend. I can't wait to get inside and play Nintendo GameCube.

Mahatma Gandhi

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

James Iha

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

James Gunn

I don't really like movies that are all one or the other. It's really about the play between both of them. Now that I've said that, there's actually lots of movies that I like that are one or the other but it's just not for me as a filmmaker.

James Gunn

The zombie is in a lot of ways the perfect horror movie bad guy. It plays on so many fears all at once. The fear of predators, the fear of disease and the fear of loved ones betraying us - the ones we care about are turning around and trying to eat us.

Laurence Sterne

The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept of the play that the cast, staff, and crew work to obtain.

Laura Carmichael

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Laura Carmichael

It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

Laura Carmichael

Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

Larry Evans

Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

Larry Fitzgerald

When it's time to focus in and play ball during the season, 100% of my focus is on that. When it's the offseason and I've got time to be away and I can do other interests - they don't conflict. I'm good at compartmentalizing. I can put everything in its appropriate box at the time and open it up when I need to at a later time.

Larry Gagosian

I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me.

Liberace

I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Dont wear one ring, wear five or six. People ask how I can play with all those rings, and I reply, Very well, thank you.

Liev Schreiber

Particularly with the plays I choose, they're good parts, and they're parts that have been around long before a bad actor played them, and will be around long after I play them. Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.