Quotes About Never Too Old To Play

#1. You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans.

Ellen DeGeneres

#2. You are never too old to play chess!

Bobby Fischer

#3. I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

Karl Urban

#4. Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everything always went on for ever. (Pause.)

Samuel Beckett

#5. I'm tired, my head hurts, and the last thing I want is to play referee between you two. Get over it. She storms off, unable to stop the smug smile stretching her face at their stunned silence. The way people respond to her demands - all flabbergasted and slack-jawed - will never get old.

Laura Kreitzer

#6. I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#7. I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Billie Holiday

#8. I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.

Casper Van Dien

#9. I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

#10. Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

Haruki Murakami

#11. I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager.

Scott Bakula

#12. We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

Bryan Singer

#13. I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

Gustavo Santaolalla

#14. In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

Clint Eastwood

#15. I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.

John Corbett

#16. Pharmaceutical companies are very annoyed with niacin because their products have to compete with it. Some of their cholesterol-lowering drugs cost up to $150 a month while niacin costs about $10.

Abram Hoffer

#17. In the eyes of high morality, to be a victim is always more honourable than to be a killer!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

John Fogerty

#19. I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?

Walter Brennan

#20. For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

Thucydides

#21. I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project or initiated my own things.

Jim Piddock

#22. Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

Ken Dodd

#23. It's so lame. Of all the colors in the rainbow we could have gotten, we get purple. Why don't we just morph into purple dinosaurs named Barney instead of werewolves, too?

Jody Morse

#24. The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.

James Prescott Joule

#25. Mourning is never really complete. The mappings of the old play remain in the cortex, like those mappings of the phantom limb.

Robert A Berezin

#26. What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

Sir Fulke Greville