Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max von Sydow

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy

Max von Sydow

I like to play with things a while before annihilation.

Max Weinberg

All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in.

Max Weber

Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

Max Beerbohm

The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.

Max Beerbohm

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

Matthew Morrison

You dont want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

Matthew Rhys

You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by.

Matthew Perry

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

Matthew Ashford

All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.

Marin Ireland

Usually, I end up being the frumpy or mentally challenged or in 'Reasons to Be Pretty', regular. Or a weirdo. I play a lot of weirdos.

Marina and the Diamonds

I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm interested in the role we all play. We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves when we are born as no one else.

Marilyn vos Savant

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

Patricia Briggs

Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?

Pat Metheny

I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and I got to play a few tunes with him there. Shortly after that, I joined his band, which was the equivalent of joining the Beatles for me! He was, and still is, one of the greatest musicians I have ever been lucky enough to be around.

Pat Metheny

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

Pablo Casals

Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.

Pablo Casals

When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.

Pablo Casals

When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.

Pablo Casals

If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

Pablo Casals

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

Pablo Neruda

Every day you play with the light of the universe.

Plato

I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

Plato

Life should be lived as play.

Plato

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

Paul Weller

I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten...

Phil Hellmuth

I played so perfect, I couldn't play more perfect.

Phil Knight

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

Phil Jackson

Make your work your play and your play your work.

Martin Parr

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

LeBron James

I spoil a lot of people with my play,