Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo DiCaprio

The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

Oscar Wilde

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

Paul Robeson

Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top.

Paul Robeson

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

Patrick Rothfuss

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.

Parker Stevenson

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials

Page McConnell

If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

Padraig Harrington

Hopefully, I want to play a little better than I did today.

Leven Rambin

I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don't want to play too old on T.V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.

Lev Grossman

It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

Lea Thompson

Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City.

Lea Michele

I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.

Lea Michele

I'd love to be able to play all different roles, whether it's Maureen in Rent or Maria in West Side Story. I would just love to be involved in this business forever.

Lee Westwood

I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play.

Paul Shaffer

Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?

Paul Merson

It's very difficult to play when your lung comes out of your air

Paul Muni

I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.

Paul Jewell

You have to be disciplined because if you lose your discipline and lose your shape, we're playing against better players, so they'll take advantage.

Paul Ince

The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.

Paul Cellucci

Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.

Kenneth Koch

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Kristen Johnston

I want to play a Disney villainess so badly.

Kristen Stewart

When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.

Kristen Stewart

It's interesting how you can blur the line between acting and living and learn from your performances. I'm just trying to keep learning as much as I can and not get caught up in all the distractions that can play havoc with your mind.

Kristen Stewart

I play music but only for myself. For my ears only.

Kristen Stewart

I'm about to play an emaciated pregnant vampire, so I've stopped using as much butter as Paula Deen - just until 'Breaking Dawn' is over.

Kingsley Amis

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

Oscar Levant

I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.

Omari Hardwick

My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as well, and God plays a big role in my upbringing and my life.

Olivier Messiaen

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

Olivia Williams

When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.

Olivia Williams

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

Olivier Martinez

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area.