Top 100 Play You Quotes
#1. If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.
Brett Hull
#2. It's a little bit odd. The first time you do the play, you kind of throw yourself into it, trying to get the most out of all the individual moments. Then, a few hours later, you're still there, wondering what you could possibly do differently than what you just did a couple hours ago.
Michael Shannon
#3. I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can't make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can't make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.
Holly McPeak
#4. I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming.
Jon Beason
#5. It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit.
Goran Ivanisevic
#6. Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.
St. Jerome
#7. A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.
Jaco Pastorius
#8. In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
Kara Hayward
#9. The play you're referring to. It's Pygmalion. My Fair Lady is just its bastard offspring. I
Jojo Moyes
#10. You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.
Columbus Short
#11. Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side.
Mickey Hart
#12. But after that you don't see a lot of real good fundamental play. You see a showboat-type basketball which is almost parallel to street basketball.
Oscar Robertson
#13. How do I stack up?" I asked. "Against what?" He stared at the ceiling. "Your bike." "Not even in the same league, darlin'. Your pipes rumble so loud, Harleys should just play you on speakers.
Paige Notaro
#14. Student-Athletes, Remember Play the Game, don't let the Game Play You.
Jeffrey A. Berk
#15. Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true
J. Cole
#16. You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And if you don't play, you can't win.
Judith McNaught
#17. Play the game, never let the game play you.
Tupac Shakur
#18. That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.
Billy Magnussen
#19. When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions
that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.
Edward Albee
#20. Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
Oprah Winfrey
#21. When you talk about an injury and the kind of depression you go through, it's not just because you're out of shape and you can't go out and play. You're missing a part of you. That's what's painful. That's what hurts.
Jamila Wideman
#22. Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.
Lucien Bourjeily
#23. I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?
Anne Hathaway
#24. I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.
Harvey Penick
#25. Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.
Keith Moon
#26. There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.
John Malkovich
#27. As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
Iain Banks
#28. Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
David Ives
#29. I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.
Coco J. Ginger
#30. Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.
Jack Charlton
#31. I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.
Reba McEntire
#32. If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.
Hans Zimmer
#33. Alice: "I'll play you for it. Rock, paper, scissors."
Edward: "Why don't you just tell me who wins?"
Alice: "I do. Excellent.
Stephenie Meyer
#34. I come from a theatrical background, where, if you're working on a movie or a play, you always respect the people you work with. You're accommodating.
Derek Hough
#35. Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.
Roy Acuff
#36. There's going to be good plays that happen and bad plays that happen, but at the end of the day, when you have the chance to hit a big play, you have to hit it.
Andy Dalton
#37. Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is
Steve Vai
#38. A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.
Walter Payton
#39. No matter how you play the golf course, no matter how well you play, you're going to have to make 6 and 8 footers for par. It's just a given here.
Tiger Woods
#40. Life is a chess play. You have to learn the rules of the game to win the scores rights.
Auliq Ice
#41. I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.
Brian May
#42. In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.
Rahul Dravid
#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. Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.
Katherine Applegate
#45. The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
Twyla Tharp
#46. I remember coming in to the studio and meeting Barry Manilow . I was kind of star-struck. He said, "I want to play you this song." We get to the end of the song and I hear him actually sing my name as part of the lyric. I had to pick my jaw up from the floor!
Dave Koz
#47. When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is so different from the experience of seeing it.
Kate Arrington
#48. You might be an Alpha, but your family will always find a way to play you.
Suzanne Wright
#49. I know - I'll play you for it," Alice suggested. "Rock, paper, scissors."
Jasper chuckled and Edward sighed.
"Why don't you just tell me who wins?" Edward said wryly.
Alice beamed. "I do. Excellent.
Stephenie Meyer
#50. Do you think I should stay away from him?"
I asked in a scratchy voice.
Todd took a long time to answer. "My advice is, if you're inclined in that direction, go with your eyes open. It's okay to let someone play you, Haven, as long as you know what's going on.
Lisa Kleypas
#51. It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play you often end up playing leaders.
Michael Sheen
#52. When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.
Jennifer Coolidge
#53. That's match play. You've got to get lucky. You've got to try to catch somebody on a down day when you have a down day.
Peter Uihlein
#54. Watch some kids, watch them play. You'll see they're just little adults, only they don't know all the rules and tricks yet.
Graeme Simsion
#55. I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.
Lars Mikkelsen
#56. Reading a play, you view yourself as part of a whole. You see where the whole thing is going, and so you're willing to go to the very ugly place that your heart may go in order to serve the whole.
Annie Parisse
#57. Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
Alan Rickman
#58. Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction.
Eric McCormack
#59. You can never know the odds. If you don't play, you'll never win
Richard Bedford
#60. This was a no-brainer, ... When it came down to it, I said to myself, Hey, you can still play, you can still play at a high level and you still enjoy playing. Why not play?
Shannon Sharpe
#62. I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.
George Carlin
#63. I've never worried about anything in my life a fraction of the way I worry about my daughter. It's much more than hoping people like the play you're in, or that your outfit doesn't look bad. It's the real deal.
Michael Shannon
#64. Don't play the saxophone, let the saxophone play you.
Charlie Parker
#65. A lot of times when you play ... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
Venus Williams
#66. With the Law of Creation in play, you not only see the abundance and opportunity that surrounds you. You're able to TAKE it.
Joe Vitale
#67. Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#68. As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.
Joe Torre
#69. I'm not saying that what the radio plays isn't good. My issue is with what they don't play. You can play Jay-Z, but why don't you play Jurassic 5? You can play Nas and Nelly, but why don't you play J-Live? I want to open up the door to how it was back in the day.
DJ Jazzy Jeff
#70. People come up to me and say, 'You are such a great bad guy.' The fact is that the antagonist in a movie is usually the most fun to play. You can stretch the role and do so much with it.
Robert Z'Dar
#71. I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.
Geena Davis
#72. When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.
Sean Patrick Thomas
#73. It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing that in the evening you'll be doing this.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#74. When you play against top players, sometimes you can play - you can play your utmost and you still get beat.
Tim Howard
#75. I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens ... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.
Shane Warne
#76. Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid's play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they're ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest
Paul Newman
#77. You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans.
Ellen DeGeneres
#78. If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl Streep to play you. You'll feel much better.
Nora Ephron
#79. I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called.
Howard Dean
#80. Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
Nell Leyshon
#81. The oboe's a horn made of wood.
I'd play you a tune if I could,
But the reeds are a pain,
And the fingering's insane.
It's the ill wind that no one blows good.
Ogden Nash
#82. If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.
John Brady
#83. I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
Willem Dafoe
#85. Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!
Israelmore Ayivor
#86. If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.
Miles Davis
#87. Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.
Leigh Steinberg
#88. Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness.
We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not.
You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.
Jeanette Winterson
#89. There is no cowardice in removing yourself from a wildly unhealthy and unwinnable situation . . . You shouldn't feel like you have to play . . . you don't owe anyone anything. You don't have to be available to everyone. You can stop.
Scaachi Koul
#90. Hockey is probably one of the most expensive sports. You have to have a place to play. You have to have the proper equipment. You have to have the transportation to get there.
Mark Wahlberg
#91. The universe doesn't hand out blank cards to play. You will know your hand soon enough.
Shelly Crane
#92. You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar ... It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play.
Swami Vivekananda
#93. We went through a period of time when if you were of Asian descent, you would play a terrorist or you would play, you know, like, the 7-Eleven guy or you would play that. And then really watch television now.
Reshma Shetty
#94. When you have a play, you have to be on every night.
Sanaa Lathan
#95. If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.
Alexander Kotov
#96. Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.
George A. Sheehan
#97. When you're doing a one-man play, you maybe rehearse for a month, and then you're just doing it an hour or two a night.
Martin Henderson
#98. You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what ... I feel inside me ...
Katy Evans
#99. With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.
Penelope Keith
#100. I was playing a gig in Greece in September 2003 and this guy walks up to me and says, 'Hey Tiesto I just heard you play; you're amazing. I want you to play at the opening ceremony of the Olympics.' I looked at him, like, 'Sure pal!'
Tiesto
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