If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

They always try to play with our minds. But that won't work with our club. We've got 20 guys without brains.

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.

Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.

Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the colour of my skin.

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Most people that do play nowadays hit really hard. It was good to get someone that hit really hard early on.

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.

Food to eat and games to play. Tell me why, tell me why. Serve it out and eat it up. Have a try, have a try.

If I'm asked to play first, I should be ready. It's nice to be in the lineup, regardless of where you're at.

Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.

As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

It's almost jarring when you go to play a different character, after playing someone for so long. I love it!

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.

Harriet Miers isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on The West Wing , let alone to be a real one.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.

People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

I play a recurring role for a character named Doctor Imo. I assist the villain and show up from time to time.

The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

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