Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

Theodore Bikel

'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?

Theodore Bikel

There is no role I cannot play except a midget.

Theo Walcott

T was a brilliant feeling to make my debut and to hear the crowd chanting my name. It made me play much better.

Thelonious Monk

I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.

Thelonious Monk

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Terry Riley

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.

Margaret Mitchell

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

Kimi Raikkonen

Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that.

Michael Biehn

I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one feeling at a time. Classical music is by its very nature involved with different kinds of music, constantly transforming one another, which is more akin to the way our experience of life really is.

Michael Stipe

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

Michael Mandelbaum

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

Michael Ironside

I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.

Meat Loaf

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

Max Roach

I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through,

Max Lucado

God cast you in His play, wrote you into His story. He has a definite direction for your life. Fulfill it and enjoy fulfillment. Play the part God prepared for you and get ready for some great days.

Max Hastings

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

Max Euwe

Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up and can only be partially compensated by his employing his time allowance to the full.

Maurice Baring

A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.

Matthew Macfadyen

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

Matthew Macfadyen

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

Matthew Lewis

Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.

Matt Lucas

If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

Mayer Hawthorne

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

Maya Lin

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

Maynard James Keenan

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Maud Adams

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

Matt Smith

It's very rare that I play cool people. I'm not sure what that says about me.

Matt Hasselbeck

When you get frustrated you try to do too much, you try to make stuff up that's not there, and you play outside yourself.

Matt Tong

The live experience and the recorded experience are totally different. When you're recording an album, you won't be able to immerse people in sound. When you play live, you want to grab people on the visceral level. They're completely different.

Meek Mill

Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right.

Meg Cabot

But. . . you said we were going to play Parcheezi. . .