play quotes

“All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up? ”

— Willie Nelson

“There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ”

— Julius Robert Oppenheimer

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”

— William Shakespeare

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

“Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.”

— Robert Redford

“To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. ”

— Eminem

“Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.”

— Sai Baba

“I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. ”

— Kobe Bryant

“I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. ”

— Kobe Bryant

“Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. ”

— Kurt Cobain

“I love playing ego and insecurity combined. ”

— Jim Carrey

“When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe. ”

— Jim Carrey

“Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. ”

— Johnny Depp

“I'm not a playwright. ”

— Bob Dylan

“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“ It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“When I die, just keep playing the records.”

— Jimi Hendrix