Top 100 I Don't Play Quotes
#1. You're playing with fire, Aaron. People who do that get burned."
"I don't play with fire, Dayton. I stroke it and make it burn hotter and faster until it consumes everything in its path. I'll never take a spark where I can have a roaring flame.
Emma Hart
#2. I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.
John Densmore
#3. Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play tennis, I don't play music, but I have a great time.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
#4. I think that more than the winning, the weeks where I don't play well are what drive me the most.
Tom Lehman
#5. I didn't make the rules, but fuck if I don't play the hell out of the game.
A.D. Aliwat
#6. I don't live in the past. I don't play my old records for that reason. I make a statement, then move on to the next.
Prince
#7. I don't play video games because I know that if I ever started, I'd never be able to maintain a career again.
Jeff Lemire
#8. I don't play bad guys. I play people who make choices that are different from other people's.
Robert Deniro
#9. I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.
Phil Rizzuto
#10. I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.
Robin Trower
#12. The first time we met I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it, lady. I don't play at it.
Raymond Chandler
#13. I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting.
Laurence Fishburne
#14. I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.
John Lee Hooker
#15. I don't play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a while when he gets bored, he'll do a little boxing in there. He gets into the football. You can trade players, and he keeps up with the whole aspect of the game, not just the game. He's a fanatic.
Laila Ali
#17. I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
Dick Dale
#18. I don't play music very well, so I've always surrounded myself with people who played a lot better than I did. I'm a loyal person, and I just tend to leave it to the experts.
Lynn Anderson
#19. I don't play against any team in particular. I play to fight against defeat.
Eric Cantona
#20. A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.
Ndamukong Suh
#21. I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.
Bill Laimbeer
#22. I'm a very feminine man. I like feminine things. I don't go to strip clubs. I don't drink beer. I don't play sports.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#24. My philosophy is, honestly, never collected anything that I don't play. I know a lot of people that collect guitars, but for me, I want instruments that I play. And if I don't play them, I don't' want to have them sitting in a closet collecting dust.
Ronnie Montrose
#25. And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by Debussy. I don't play Beethoven so well, but I play Debussy very badly, and Beethoven would have liked that.
Victor Borge
#26. I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
Alan Rickman
#27. If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'
Chi McBride
#28. Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.
Elvis Costello
#29. I expect myself to do well. I'm not, like, 'Oh, well.' I'm not in that category just yet. I don't play great golf a lot anymore. I do it every now and then. I finished third in the British Open last year, so I know I can still do it.
Fred Couples
#30. I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.
Robbie Robertson
#31. I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.
Jack Nicholson
#32. Even if you say you "don't play games," that is a type of game - it is the "I don't play games" game.
Aziz Ansari
#33. I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.
Tommy Lee Jones
#34. I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.
Pansy Ho
#35. I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.
Hal Holbrook
#36. I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.
Howlin' Wolf
#37. My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went to school for music production, but I know exactly how a song should sound and how to give an artist direction.
Sean Combs
#38. I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
Jacki Weaver
#39. I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.
Amanda Plummer
#40. I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
Zach Braff
#42. I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.
Lola Kirke
#43. I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
James Taylor
#44. I don't play golf, and I'm not into horse racing.
Lloyd Dorfman
#46. I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#47. I don't play golf or tennis, I don't ski, I don't snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.
Frankie Valli
#48. I don't play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox.
Adrien Broner
#49. President Obama just made his first presidential trip to the state of Utah. Obama spent his time in Utah just like you'd expect - telling people, 'Uh, no, I don't play for the Jazz.'
Jimmy Fallon
#50. I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.
Kenny G
#51. I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.
Joyce Tenneson
#52. I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.
Ben Stiller
#53. For years, I've felt like the loneliest brother on the planet. I don't play basketball, I can't dance, and I'd rather listen to Harry Nilsson than hip hop.
Shawn Amos
#54. I'm not very actorish. I don't play actor 24 hours a day. When the job is done, I go on to be myself, whoever that is.
Raymond Burr
#55. I don't play sports. The only sports I play is shopping. But there is a lot of walking involved in that ... running sometimes if there's a sale.
Jessica Simpson
#56. I'm not a jukebox; I don't play exactly what the crowd wants to hear - that doesn't make sense. But, I do look at people requests. At the end of the day, they are the ticket payers and they are the ones that come to the show. If I played music that purely entertains me, I'd play very weird music.
Armin Van Buuren
#57. I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.
David Klass
#58. I'm a wolf ma'am. Not a cat. I don't play around with my prey.
Patricia Briggs
#59. I say it the way it is. I don't play around. That has been my success, in my opinion, for Mississauga.
Hazel McCallion
#60. I don't play the guitar. That would mean I wanted people to hear it. I just strum a few strings to make myself feel better. It fills my silence.
Annie Hughes
#61. I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good.
Chris Moneymaker
#62. Tab and I don't play it that way. You wanna order your old lady around, do what you do, not for me to say. I asked her to go, she didn't go. Not gonna make her. But you try, you'll deal with me
Kristen Ashley
#63. I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
David Cassidy
#64. I can be ruthless, unforgiving, and a manipulative bastard. But I don't play games with sex.
Naima Simone
#65. I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
Nate Ruess
#66. I don't play to lose, only to win or learn. Mostly learn.
Mark Rude
#67. The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.
Billy Corgan
#68. I don't play much golf anymore. I can't - if I break 80, I'm doing pretty well.
Jack Nicklaus
#69. I still enjoy what I'm doing, which is building businesses. I don't play golf. I don't have any particular passion apart from my business and my family, and that gives me all the pleasure that I want.
Christoffel Wiese
#70. I don't play tennis to prove a point to anyone. I play for my country and myself. It's not changing what people say or think. It's about what I can do. If I feel I have the ability to achieve something and haven't used my potential to that end, I'll keep trying till I succeed.
Sania Mirza
#71. I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.
Sienna Miller
#72. I have no interest in owning a football club; I don't play golf; I don't like horseracing and I'd rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics.
Lloyd Dorfman
#73. I have been known to play a few rounds in my time. I'm not obsessive; I don't play in the dark, but even that's not out of the question because Stevie Wonder is also a golfer.
Jasper Carrott
#75. When I play live in restaurants and cafes, I don't play my own stuff. I play jazz and 'American Songbook' standards, and I'll fuse it with top 40.
Darren Criss
#76. I don't play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I'd like to have a crack at one of those guys. A heartbreaker. Some people are born to it. I'm not.
Christopher Walken
#77. Simon: Anyone ever tell you your sense of timing really sucks?
Derek: That's why I don't play the drums. Now what's up?
Kelley Armstrong
#78. I don't like uncertainty. I don't play poker. I don't like bluffing.
Joss Whedon
#79. I don't photograph for other people. I love an audience, mind you. Once I've got them there, then I love an audience. Not a big audience, though. I'd rather please ten people I respect than ten million I don't. But I don't play to an audience, I do it for myself.
Brett Weston
#80. It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg
I don't know why
but then I play well after that.
Carlos Moya
#81. I want to start dating the man that I'm gonna marry. I want to start having some fun with someone that I know I'm gonna be with. I don't play any games. I'm too old for that. I've been there; I've been around the block.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
#82. I don't play ball because I want attention. I do it because it gives me the opportunity to bust somebody's head. And I just love to do it. I love what I do.
Marshawn Lynch
#83. I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.
Christopher Lee
#84. I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.
Marcello Giordani
#86. I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.
Esther Rolle
#87. I thought I told you I don't play by the rules," I argue. "Ye're mistaken," he says. "Ye just walked into my world unbidden. So you will play by the rules, butterfly. You'll be playing by all my rules.
A. Zavarelli
#88. I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
Ian McEwan
#89. I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
Lou Holtz
#90. I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
John Ashcroft
#91. If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.
Bruce Forsyth
#93. You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.
Shemar Moore
#94. I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand.
Michael Gambon
#95. Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that.
Marc Anthony
#96. I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.
Donna Karan
#97. It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#98. When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.
Ben Kingsley
#99. I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.
Cass McCombs
#100. If drumsticks are for playing drums, you would think that breadsticks would be for playing bread, wouldn't you? "Would you like some breadsticks?" "No, thank you, I don't play bread. I play drums. Perhaps I'll have a drum roll."
George Carlin
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