Absurd Play Quotes

#1. I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd.

David Cook

#2. In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...
It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

Stefan Zweig

#3. The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to others, does what in him lies to draw them into sin; and if they do not follow it, that is no mitigation of his fault.

John Tillotson

#4. I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.

Claire Danes

#5. I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.

Cate Blanchett

#6. We all shine on ... like the moon and the stars and the sun ... we all shine on ... come on and on and on ...

John Lennon

#7. It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

Steven Van Zandt

#8. The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

David O. Russell

#9. After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

Nancy Sinatra

#10. I scraped my heel against this black claw: I wanted to peel off some of the bark. For no reason at all, out of defiance, to make the bare pink appear absurd on the tanned leather: to play with the absurdity of the world. But, when I drew my heel back, I saw that the bark was still black.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. Until the wolf shall lay with lamb, we'd better be the wolves.

Ehud Barak

#12. That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?

John Osborne

#13. Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.

Jacques Vallee

#14. When you are dealing with something that's crazy, you still want actors to play characters and find the reality of the situation, no matter how absurd the situation is.

Drew Goddard

#15. Sex is currency. What's the use of being beautiful if you can't profit from it?

Lili St. Cyr

#16. In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

Steve Martin

#17. I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny.
I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

Woody Allen

#18. It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Honore De Balzac