Play Around Quotes

#1. Beans are such a nice, neutral canvas, you can make a big, basic pot of them and then play around with them differently every day.

Crescent Dragonwagon

#2. My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.

Josephine De La Baume

#3. You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.

Nicole Kidman

#4. You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.

Adrienne Rich

#5. But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.

Red Grooms

#6. One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

David Duchovny

#7. I ask a million questions, and I insist on having answers. I think that is what we have to do. I have to know what the director wants. Some are very much in their head, and I need to force it out of them. I just can't play around for eight hours and see if something happens.

Mads Mikkelsen

#8. It's fun to play around ... it's human nature to try to select the right horse ... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer ... The predictability is so high ... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?

Charles R. Schwab

#9. I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

Brian Eno

#10. I say, staring at her, quite clearly but muffled by "Pump Up the Volume" and the crowd, "You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood," but I'm smiling. I

Bret Easton Ellis

#11. In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

Willem Dafoe

#12. On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

Nate Silver

#13. The reason why I play around with the word legend is because this is my 7th CD and a lot of artists don't even make it that far. Many artists don't even pass three or four.

Ginuwine

#14. I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around and became quite good.

Louise Nurding

#15. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

Corbin Bernsen

#16. I like to play around with mixing high-end with more affordable pieces.

Ashley Madekwe

#17. I know their type. They smile too easily, welcome too warmly, their words as fake as the moans
they make when they let their little boyfriends play around between their thighs.

J.M. Darhower

#18. I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that.

Gucci Mane

#19. I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#20. I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

Fiona Apple

#21. It comes as no surprise that average Americans have a different perception of the economy than (US President) George W. Bush and his friends. They can play around with statistics as much as they want, but it's clear that we have an unfair distribution of wealth.

Kenneth Rogoff

#22. My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.

Laurie Graham

#23. While I truly believe that you must have intentions to fulfill your dreams, I also think you have to leave room for the universe to have its way and play around a bit.

Sophia Amoruso

#24. With love, you don't mislead or play around, so if you're not perfectly clear, just be honest about it.

Khloe Kardashian

#25. If I had intended for 'Minecraft' to end up on consoles, I wouldn't have developed the game in Java. The decision to port the game to consoles came from a combination of player requests, a desire to play around with the brand on different platforms, and some interesting business deals.

Markus Persson

#26. You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood, but I'm smiling.

Bret Easton Ellis

#27. I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

Ashley Rickards

#28. When I don't have a fight scheduled, training is even more fun. I can come into the gym and work on stuff that isn't generated for a specific game plan. I can just play around with it and have a good time. I never want to get to the point where I'm sick of it.

Holly Holm

#29. Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Natalie Goldberg

#30. Take some time to play around with segmentation. If you can pinpoint your best and worst customers it's well worth the time.

Des MacHale

#31. I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

Sam Phillips

#32. She'd play around and tease me with her carefree devil eyes. She'd hold me close and kiss me, but her heart was full of lies.

Ricky Nelson

#33. I like doing my makeup myself! It's a hobby of mine. I like to play around. I've learned all the best tricks from the pros!

Natasha Poly

#34. I love the idea of being without an identity, it gives me a lot of room to play around; but it makes me dizzy, having nowhere to hang my hat.

Kate Bornstein

#35. There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.

Shia Labeouf

#36. Don't be afraid to pile on the midi rings! I like to play around with metals and pair delicate rings with chunkier ones.

Ashley Madekwe

#37. They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good.

Corbin Bernsen

#38. Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.

Mark Shand

#39. A friend tweeted me with 'The Big Freeze.' I don't know about that one. I've got to go home, play around with the kids and figure something out. I'll have one.

Shaquille O'Neal

#40. When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#41. I was always fascinated with the way that things pop on the Internet - the ways you build communities and create little stories and ideas that people play around with and send back to you.

John Hodgman

#42. When you prepare for something, you can then play around; you're not as worried about remembering your lines because you already know them so well. That's where you can find the freedom. So I'm all about prep work.

Krysten Ritter

#43. Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director.

Kevin McDonald

#44. I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

P. W. Botha

#45. There are only two types of girls: the type that you marry and the type that you play around with and then break up with. But you're somewhere in between.

Joo

#46. Playing a character that allows me to play around with some of the feelings I have inside of myself and explore them - and maybe put them to rest a little bit, or at least come to terms with them - feels successful to me. I think it's about believing in what you do.

Channing Tatum

#47. In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.

Lia Ices

#48. It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.

Bob Geldof

#49. The mind is often an area where "people play around with sin".

Joyce Meyer

#50. The majority of the filmmaking process is in pre-production. The more you've planned out the more freedom there is on set to find new stuff, to play around, find new jokes and let the actors kind of breathe - but it needs to come from a place where it's completely structured.

Vin Diesel

#51. You should not play around with a married young woman: the slander could be serious

Shuruppak

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

Lev Grossman

#53. I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I've gotta still get my studies in and all. I love to learn. But I also love to do stop motion animation with my little Lego figures. I love to play around on the computer with that.

Atticus Shaffer

#54. '24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

#55. We used to play around with our implicitly,
we are too enjoying a game of looking and interpreting our self,
until there is one thing that may be forgotten:
is happy incomplete, if we do not explicitly express it?

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#56. It was like invasion of the body snatchers. "Knock that off. Stay out of my brain. Play around in your own. Stretch out a bit. There's probably a lot of unused space.

Amanda Vyne

#57. The Tinkering School. More of a lab than a school, this summer program, created by computer scientist Gever Tulley, lets children from seven to seventeen play around with interesting stuff and build cool things.

Daniel H. Pink

#58. The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.

Nate Powell

#59. You're like a cat. If I get close, you'll ignore me and go far away. If I get hurt, you'll play around to share the pain.

Naoshi Arakawa

#60. People's expectations of what I'm capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around.

Nicki Minaj

#61. My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17 ... he didn't play around.

Damon Wayans Jr.

#62. I get passionate about certain subjects, and then I'll write a whole play around it.

Scott Haze

#63. Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years. I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.

Jeff Sessions

#64. Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.

Warren Buffett

#65. I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

Dan Chaon

#66. It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

Richard C. Armitage

#67. Leave that cycle at home. I like a truck bed to play around in under the moon and stars.

Carolyn Brown

#68. You need something that no one else is using. And something that is clean enough to play around audiences.

Curtis Granderson

#69. I say it the way it is. I don't play around. That has been my success, in my opinion, for Mississauga.

Hazel McCallion

#70. I'm a wolf ma'am. Not a cat. I don't play around with my prey.

Patricia Briggs

#71. We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.

Ze Frank

#72. When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it.

Richie Norton

#73. It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.

Ryan Adams

#74. I've never had a specific style philosophy. I wear what I know works on me and I'll play around with accessories or some other fun additions for the outfit.

Hilary Rhoda

#75. It's important to pull tons of pieces! If you have lots of options to choose from, you can play around and see that things that you wouldn't originally have expected to work together actually do! That applies to both clothing and decorating.

Jeremiah Brent

#76. We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

Wayne Coyne

#77. I love that I can play around with all types of music.

R. Kelly

#78. On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

Octavia Butler

#79. My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

John Wozniak

#80. The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

Jesse Eisenberg

#81. Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.

Douglas Adams

#82. I guess a lot of bands play around until they come up with something they like.

Greg Saunier

#83. I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.

Jason Bateman

#84. 'True Blood' is truly a playground. You get to go in and just let loose and completely just have fun and play around. There is so much freedom on set.

Lindsay Pulsipher

#85. But it is INTERESTING trying to get a handle on one's own subjectivity
something to think about, to play around with, and what's more fun than that?

Philip Roth

#86. As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

M.I.A.

#87. I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

David Hasselhoff

#88. I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.

Stuart Townsend

#89. I encourage people to play around, mix proportions, textures, seasons and prints, and to find what makes them feel their most comfortable and expressive.

Thakoon Panichgul

#90. As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

Natasha Bedingfield

#91. I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

Oleg Cassini

#92. If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

Mads Mikkelsen

#93. I never aspired to be in a band, but being onstage is a very cool feeling. It's like you're the lord of the room. It's hard to croon and run around doing big scissor kicks while also trying to play, though. I'm still mastering that.

Robert Sheehan

#94. Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

Joe Paterno

#95. You need to play to your strengths as a couple. Sharing is really awesome when you're messing around with Play-Doh in kindergarten. It's less awesome when you're adults and one of you is good at something and the other person sucks at it. So just let the more skilled person take the reins.

Peter Scott

#96. I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that cares about children and the need for play.

Darell Hammond

#97. The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse ... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

Cindy Crawford

#98. Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

Samantha Bond

#99. If you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure ... I try to be conservative in my risk management. I want to make sure I'll be around to play tomorrow. Risk control is essential.

Monroe Trout

#100. I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.

Roger Maris