Top 100 You Play Quotes
#1. If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
Elliott Smith
#2. Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind.
Terrence Howard
#3. When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.
Sade Adu
#4. You play on the ice... you get what you should get.
Deyth Banger
#5. The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.
Christopher Meloni
#6. And where jazz music was concerned, there was a saying, Segodnia on igraet dzhaz, a zavtra rodinu prodast: Today you play jazz, tomorrow you betray the motherland." Igor,
Michael Segell
#7. This game, it seems when you play it the best, is when you're not really thinking a lot and just reacting and keeping it at its simplest point - just see it and hit it.
Jason Giambi
#8. You've got to be happy when you play a sad character; otherwise, you just get depressed. Make your real life as fun as possible.
Sophie Turner
#9. When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.
Jim Rohn
#10. You play a certain way for so long, and change is good. So I look forward to change, and I look forward to playing with the proper talent that we were able to put together.
Dwyane Wade
#11. So what do you do for sex? Just one-night stands? Or do you play a lot of five-on-one?
Clarissa
Tiffany Snow
#12. Being from New York, everybody's a point guard. Even when you play in the park, you've got to know how to handle the ball. If you can't handle the ball, you can't really play.
Joakim Noah
#13. Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
Rafael Nadal
#14. 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
#15. When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.
Gary Player
#17. It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.
Paul Bettany
#18. Music is in the connection of human souls, speaking a language that needs no words. Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world. Frankie's
Mitch Albom
#19. You should know what happens when you play with fire, Cahill. Eventually, you'll get burned.
Maria V. Snyder
#20. In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves.. good and bad.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#21. When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
Florence Welch
#22. It's very easy to fall in love with every character you play.
Jim Howick
#23. I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.
Adam Jones
#24. Everyone is fighting like crazy because it's the last Grand Slam. When you play the Grand Slams, you just have to give everything you have.
Simona Halep
#25. Life is a game, and it's much more fun if you play it as your own game, so stay light and loose and relaxed.
Bill Murray
#26. I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
Kali Hawk
#28. It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.
Albert Pujols
#29. If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
Miles Davis
#30. Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.
Ze Frank
#31. The better you putt, the bolder you play.
Don January
#32. It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to decide what you play. I don't know. I can only say this: I don't want to and have no interest in playing a plastic surgeon. That's for sure. I'm open to anything else.
Dylan Walsh
#33. As a goalie, you must stay positive. And if you do make a mistake, well, those things happen when you play my position.
Henrik Lundqvist
#34. So . . . you want me to fall in love with you, while you play kissing games with another girl?
Sherry Thomas
#35. I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play. I get that. And I don't shy away from those parts.
Jason Bateman
#36. When you play with someone you can feel the chemistry with, just the first show is already magic.
Hiromi
#37. So, you play today! You don't worry about what's gone, 'cause that's already gone and you can't bring what's gone back. It doesn't happen that way. So, every day's a new day and just play it as it comes. And I turned out to be a singer that was not on dope.
Anita O'Day
#38. Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world.
Mitch Albom
#39. Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.
Tom Spanbauer
#40. You need to take risks, you never know if the end results will be beautiful or strange, you need to be instantaneous, listening to every moments, without missing a scrap of the music, even if you play a rest!
Brian Blade
#41. No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.
Bon Scott
#42. If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.
Pablo Casals
#43. Of course not," she snapped. "I'm only thirsty. Would you play the gallant and find me a glass of lemonade?"
"I assume 'lemonade' is code for wine?
Victoria Dahl
#44. 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
#45. You play tough guy, making jokes to hide the anger you feel in your heart because they were taken from you, the men responsible never found.
Charlie Cochet
#47. Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.
Ruggiero Ricci
#48. Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.
Mike Krzyzewski
#49. I want kids to understand that making pictures is similar to making music; there are so many instruments and so many tunes that the possibilities for how you play are truly limitless.
Jerry Pinkney
#50. I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
Elvis Presley
#51. The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.
Roger Federer
#52. I've always said it's flattering to be desired, just as it's flattering that people accept the reality of the character you play. But it was always ridiculous to assume that because I could play a gigolo on screen I'd play anything like that role off screen.
Richard Gere
#53. She strode up some steps and banged on the door. "Now you play nice or I'll put you in the dog house."(Alannah)
"Woof."(Christopher Beckett)
Dana Marie Bell
#54. If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.
George Benson
#55. You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.
John Carpenter
#56. Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it.
Stefan Balint
#57. You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success is all about. It's getting people you like, who want to take the hill with you, who want to win, who have the passion. This is not rocket science.
Jack Welch
#58. We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or lose but how well you play the game." I used to think that was about sports, but as an adult, I realize what I create, do, etc., is more important than winning a prize.
Renee Lawless
#59. Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?
Jonny Greenwood
#60. If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.
Kevin Eubanks
#61. 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
#62. I could never get excited about games you play with other people. I can't get into them. I lose interest.
Haruki Murakami
#63. I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
Kevin Spacey
#64. I'm definitely a fan of sort of dramas, independent sort of social dramas where you play really challenging roles. Every actor wants to play those dark roles and it's definitely true for me and I'd love to kind of challenge myself in any way possible.
Nathalie Emmanuel
#65. You play crotch roulette, you're gonna hit double zero once in a while.
Tucker Max
#66. Everything is perfect.
Everything is fine.
The rules of life are made up.
The rules only exist in your mind.
Of course there may be courtesies
And closures and laws to abide,
But the zeal with which you play
Relies on where YOU draw the line
Jason Mraz
#67. The thing about rugby is this: You can hate a guy off the pitch who will save your fucking balls on the pitch when you play on the same side. There is nothing more glorious that that.
Sam Bosma
#68. The more you play it the less you know about it.
Patty Berg
#69. When you play against the best, it brings the best out in everybody.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#70. You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
Dan Auerbach
#71. I just get such a connection from an audience. You play with them. I get mad at them. I yell at them. They yell at me. It's just fun.
Joan Rivers
#72. You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
Jacki Weaver
#73. Poor innocent baby, about to get fleeced. Tut-tut, gorgeous. You know when you play poker with a man behind closed doors, there is only one acceptable currency.
Nalini Singh
#74. Basketball is a game with winners and losers, but if you play this game with your heart, you're always a winner.
C.M.
#75. Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.
Taylor Swift
#76. When you play a character that exists or existed, there's a stronger responsibility that you have. You owe that person and then you owe the family, you owe history, you owe the victims, the victims' families.
Johnny Depp
#77. 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
#78. Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.
Bear Bryant
#79. It's a big game tomorrow, obviously, quarter finals. I think that whenever you play the Russians you always get up for it, and tomorrow is going to be even that much bigger, the quarter finals.
Michael Richards
#80. It was already there," he said. "Someone left it behind. They didn't want it. The super said they couldn't even rent the apartment for a few weeks because it takes up the whole bedroom and nobody wanted to pay to take it out. Can you believe it? A Steinway." "Lucky that you play," she said. She
Alice McDermott
#81. One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.
George Archer
#82. Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.
Wilt Chamberlain
#83. When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
Oscar Robertson
#84. You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.
Neil Gaiman
#86. 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
#87. I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.
Rosemarie DeWitt
#88. About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!
Robert Fulghum
#89. 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
#90. As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.
Sylvester McCoy
#92. When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#93. It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.
Cass McCombs
#94. When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
Wayne Rooney
#95. As she took Liam, she whispered to Dragos, "You win all the good Daddy points."
His eyes glinted with wicked sensuality, and his eyelids lowered to conceal it. Ever the opportunist, he murmured, "And what will that get me?"
"If you play your cards right, it might get you lucky later.
Thea Harrison
#96. When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.
Steve Young
#97. When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.
Pete Rose
#98. I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.
Jules Asner
#99. Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.
Nora Roberts
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