Playing Dead Quotes

#1. Mick hadn't become the NFL'S leading quarterback by lying back and playing dead.

Jaci Burton

#2. In Montana, when we did 'Return to Lonesome Dove', we rode on the side of a hill at night in the dark; I was afraid my horse would step on one of the actors playing dead. The director said to leave it to the stunt doubles since they got paid for that.

William Sanderson

#3. Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead.

Joel Spolsky

#4. Even for survivors, now, there is nothing but roles. Like a bizarre reversal of animals playing dead, we are expected to act alive when we are dead inside. There is nowhere for the truth of one's feelings.

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

#5. If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up , he will roll over to prove that he is dead. [Footnote:] While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.

Will Cuppy

#6. I was peace pipes and treaties. My style was to talk and duck. It was an animal tactic, playing dead in hopes that the predators would move to an actual fight.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#7. Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.

Richard Saunders

#8. You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.

Paulo Coelho

#9. 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

#10. She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

Ann Brashares

#11. A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

Kelly Jones

#12. Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you?

Mira Grant

#13. Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along ... or you're next.

Sara Shepard

#14. Only when he was conducting an autopsy could he forget the death of his beloved son. Ironically, playing with dead bodies released him from the death that had touched him.

Koji Suzuki

#15. As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.

Ozzy Osbourne

#16. If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

Jim Broadbent

#17. What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.

N.D. Wilson

#18. When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

Graham Coxon

#19. I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

Elton John

#20. I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.

Amy Lee

#21. Dead Prez is playing on the car's stereo, telling me that it's bigger than Hip-Hop, but I beg to differ.

Kris Kidd

#22. I didn't play after the Grateful Dead stopped playing. I didn't touch anything for three or four months, and I just got pretty crazy.

Bill Kreutzmann

#23. Julita was being spinned like a top by a drop-dead-gorgeous Dominicano. Later she told us that he'd asked for her number and she had given him the wrong one.
"Why did you do that?" I asked her.
"He smelled married," she said.

Isabel Lopez

#24. The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all.

Chris Moneymaker

#25. I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.

Joe Satriani

#26. At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.

David Walton

#27. This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'

Jack White

#28. I love crafting. Knitting, decoupage, scrapbooking, any "lady-ish" art form, I'm a fan. For about six months each. Then I shove all the supplies in a closet, alongside the skeletons of long dead New Year's resolutions, like saber fencing, playing the ukulele, and Japanese brush painting.

Felicia Day

#29. I remember, my mom, she's lived in Spain for about thirty years, and we were playing the Royal Albert Hall, and she was with some friends from New York. Morrissey came out with the sign 'The Queen is Dead,' and my mom's friends are like, 'Oh my God.' They took it literally.

Andy Rourke

#30. Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same ...

Elizabeth Bowen

#31. I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.

Natalie Dormer

#32. The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

Joey Santiago

#33. In every corner a gramophone shop
in every shop a hundred gramophones
in every gramophone a hundred records
in every record
an alive person playing with a dead one.
Take the steel needle and separate them
if you can.

Giorgos Seferis

#34. I do dead Canadians. If he's dead and he's Canadian and he's famous, I'll be playing him at some point.

Colm Feore

#35. You do a movie, depending on the character, there's some degree of makeup involved, especially when you're playing a vampire and you're all white and kind of dead. Sleeves, regarding costumes, there are generally sleeves, which I appreciate. I think we all do.

Johnny Depp

#36. When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a dead body and mimes playing tennis. What?

Paul Haggis

#37. Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

Ellen Hopkins

#38. The things I was good at had no real application: addressing envelopes in bubble letters with smiling creatures on the flap. Making sludgy coffee I drank with grave affect. Finding a certain desired song playing on the radio, like a medium scanning for news of the dead.

Emma Cline

#39. There lots of other kids playing in streets around this country today who are going to be dead tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day and month, because other young people are reading the kinds of things and seeing the kinds of things that are available in the media today.

Ted Bundy

#40. Ghosts! - They exist, they exist! Dead things playing at being alive.

Arthur Schnitzler

#41. A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#42. Papa is just a kid who's playing the dead serious grown-up.

Muriel Barbery

#43. When you spend your days playing with dead things, one or two flip-outs are bound to come with the territory.

Mira Grant