Top 100 Play It Quotes
#1. If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.
Tom Hiddleston
#2. Anybody who likes to play poker, if you want to find a good poker game, you're going to go play. It's not anything where I'm betting the house, like $100,000. You go, kick back, have fun, talk to some of the fans, enjoy it.
Jonathan Vilma
#3. Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.
Vernon D. Burns
#4. The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
Ann Richards
#5. Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.
Indra Nooyi
#6. I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.
Billy Sherwood
#7. When someone cares ... it is easier to speak, it is easier to listen, it is easier to play, it is easier to work. When someone cares it is easier to laugh.
Susan Polis Schutz
#8. I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.
Ziggy Marley
#9. Work hard ... have fun ... be nice ... play fair ... dream big. We only get one chance at this life. If you're going to play this game, play it to win.
Robert Herjavec
#10. When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
Barbara Sher
#11. My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#12. Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I have a lot of musician friends who I play with.
David Lambert
#13. I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect.
Ryne Sandberg
#14. When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart.
Gary Keller
#15. I'm an instinctive actor. I just see the part and play it. I'm more interested in what isn't said - the silences.
Philip Glenister
#16. If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to feel modern and feel a little confident.
Rachel Roy
#17. I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.
Lavrenti Lopes
#18. You've heard of plug-and-play. This is plug, unplug and play. It's so simple to use, it's unbelievable.
Steve Jobs
#19. a clutter of toys and materials actually makes for less play - it's all too much choice. If
Steve Biddulph
#20. Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.
Peter Farrelly
#21. Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but "safe" isn't one of them.
Mandy Hale
#22. I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my time on a song that doesn't hold up to the same standards as the other songs on the album? I won't play it live.
Betty Who
#23. I love to produce a track and then play it for the crowd; that's the biggest kick for me!
Tiesto
#24. You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well.
Cynthia Lewis
#25. My policy is not how fast you play, it's not how much you play but it's what you play and where you play it ... play for the commercial side of the music ... the word I still use today is called "simplicity" .. it is so important that you use simplicity in your playing and in your music ...
James Burton
#26. As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.
Juliette Binoche
#28. One of my favorite things is when people will ask for a song that I hadn't planned to play. It is really fun to see if you can remember something, and you don't always. I mean, sometimes it's just crash and burn.
Lyle Lovett
#29. If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
Ben Harper
#30. By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.
Brian McKnight
#31. The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.
Yehudi Menuhin
#32. In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
Ram Dass
#33. Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.
Steve Spurrier
#34. You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, think again.
Ellen Hopkins
#35. The more you play it the less you know about it.
Patty Berg
#36. I think that some people still think that the formula other than gospel still is not strong enough to get that crossover appeal to people enough that they would play it all the time, or nonchurch people would accept it, but I disagree.
Andrae Crouch
#37. I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.
Martin McDonagh
#38. Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.
Margot Robbie
#39. That's the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy.
Mindy Kaling
#40. I was just blown away by everything my dad was doing, every play. It was amazing to be able to go as a young person to the theater and see these visuals and how creative it could be. More than anything it was realizing you could do that as a life path.
Jorma Taccone
#41. Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.
Taylor Swift
#42. I want to show people all of me, because that's what I haven't been doing. To be able to play so many instruments, and no one's ever seen me play, it seems like someone who's bluffing.
Jeremih
#43. I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to love the piece you are playing. Even if you don't like it, you have to play it as if you would like it. Then you are a good interpreter.
Ruggiero Ricci
#44. We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
Gail Sheehy
#45. If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment.
Brett Favre
#46. My problem is not that I don't want to play, it's that I don't want to live!
Gaston Gaudio
#48. You play the hand you're dealt. You play it without false hope or despair, without comparing other people's hand, or questioning why you've got this hand, you just play it, as best you can, today, and the next day, and the day after that.
Lindsey O'Connor
#49. I like to play this game. I made it up myself, but I play it only once a year.
Sandra Cunha
#50. There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#51. To play the drums, you have to spread your legs and use your arms. It's a very physical instrument to play. It's not feminine.
Patty Schemel
#52. If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic. Your keynote can be ascertained by listening to some good music. When the note is played it will send a thrill right through you.
Vera Stanley Alder
#53. Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
Bill James
#54. Some part of me knew that I could play this part well, or better than well. But I was almost afraid to play it. The line between stage and life was so fragile here that I felt a risk of losing myself somehow.
J.B. Cheaney
#55. I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.
LaDainian Tomlinson
#56. My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.
Les Claypool
#57. 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
#58. During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers.
Dionne Warwick
#59. I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
Martin Sheen
#60. I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.
Iris Apfel
#61. No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
Halford Luccock
#62. Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.
Billy Corgan
#63. What happens with 'Mad Men,' it's like an Elvis Costello album; I'll watch it, and then I immediately have to watch it again. AMC will play it back-to-back. I have a tendency to yell at it when my wife's not around because if she catches me yelling at 'Mad Men,' then it gets weird.
Michael Weatherly
#64. As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.
Roy Harper
#65. My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.
Johnny Griffin
#66. Few people achieve greatness. One reason is that the opportunity, for the vast majority of us, never even shows up. Another is that if it does, it will inevitably look like a long shot. And the temptation invariably is to play it safe.
Jack McDevitt
#67. If you play for me, you play the game like you play life. You play it with pride, you play it with aggressively, and you play it as well as you possibly can.
Bill Martin
#68. Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
Gore Vidal
#69. My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music has a relationship to dance styles - The Well and the Gentle or The Wanderer for example.
Pauline Oliveros
#70. You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can't play it safe.
Dan Alatorre
#71. I've been involved in lots of GAMES OF THE HEART, gorgeous. Rolled the dice time and again, took a lot of risks, took a lot of falls. Finally seems I'm winning. I'm not about to play it safe now.
Kristen Ashley
#72. Life is catastrophe ... Everything is unfair. Who do we complain to in this shitty place? ... We all lose everything that matters in the end ... it's possible to play it with a kind of joy.p.767, The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
#73. I got poked in the left eye on the collision. My vision is blurry in that eye. I had to play. It was for coach, and because it was a district game.
George H. W. Bush
#74. That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.
Eugene Ormandy
#76. If you're playing Hitler, you don't play Hitler as an asshole. Hitler believed what he was doing was right. Any of those monsters and any serial killer believes in what they're doing. I play it subjectively.
James Purefoy
#77. Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.
Chris Bailey
#78. I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.
Callan McAuliffe
#79. I decided to play it cool but there was one big problem with that. I wasn't cool.
Kristen Ashley
#80. Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.
John F. Kennedy
#81. Who is playing this part anyway? That's right, play it any way you want. That's the way to play it.
Art Hochberg
#82. Going to a major tournament, having that buzz - it's hard to put into words. It's a dream to go there, and to play. It's the biggest thing you can achieve in your career, and to go again would be a dream.
Jermain Defoe
#84. I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
Aaron Koblin
#85. Money can buy you Playstation but not time to play it
Subhasis Das
#86. It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether again to learn how to play it. These are the elements that are fascinating, and, you know, move my world.
Gail Zappa
#87. It's fun to get a message on the phone service that Lucille Ball or Burt Reynolds called, and play it very blase by asking, 'Anyone else?'
Charles Nelson Reilly
#88. If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
Keith Jarrett
#89. If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.
Viola Davis
#90. Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it.
Stefan Balint
#91. I love playing serious! That's a relief for me. It means something. It sounds dead corny and cheesy, but on a day-to-day basis, you can't just let loose and cry. So as an actress playing those gritty roles, I can play it quite decently.
Lauren Socha
#92. The most extravagant sinners of Jesus's day receive His most compassionate welcome. Grace is a divine vulgarity that stands caution on its head. It refuses to play it safe and lay it up. Grace is recklessly generous, uncomfortably promiscuous.
Preston Sprinkle
#93. I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It's fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.
Evan Peters
#94. My voice is rather quirky. It's abysmally low. People often think I'm putting it on at first. Think drunk Darth Vader. Or Barry White singing country. It suits my dark material. When I do readings, I really play it up and go subterranean. I can make the phone book sound terrifying.
Benjamin Percy
#95. When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.
Vivica A. Fox
#96. The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.
Katherine Catmull
#97. I don't like talking. It's how I'm built. Some people gab all day and some play it smogo. I don't mind talking or smiling, it's just I don't do it very much. I haven't got a smiling face or a talking mouth.
Ringo Starr
#98. Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you've done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen.
William Shatner
#99. You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.
James Gray
#100. One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.
Rodney Dangerfield
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