Quotes About Plays

I used to act in plays when I was in school and college, but you cannot say that I was passionate about acting. I was only interested in being a part of the group, and the group was passionate about filmmaking.

I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.

Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens.

Most wide receivers are soft, honestly, so once you get in their mind, it plays into my hands.

The film room teaches you how to do the job, how to study the game, how to teach the game from film. How to create an advantage for your team by knowing your opponent, and all their plays and tendencies. And there's no better guy in the world that I've been around than Jim O'Brien at breaking down film.

A lot of times in my career, I've been the end point, the termination point of a lot of plays, just scoring the ball.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

Tell me something wonderful, he said to Dane. Tell me that we are going to die dreamfully and loved in our sleep. You're always writing one of your plays on the phone, said Dane. I said, something wonderful. Say something about springtime. It is sloppy and wet. It is a beast from the sea. Ah, said Harry.

Still, it was impossible to deny: Going all the way to London without taking time out to attend a few horrendous plays was like making a special trip to Hell without ever asking to meet Satan. So this time around, I decided to plunge in headfirst. Never a fan of Noel Coward, I nonetheless reported to the Albery Theatre, forked over a king's ransom for a good seat, and watched Alan Rickman act up a storm in Private Lives.

Although I myself have not been a huge follower of Shakespeare's dramatic nuances during my academic years, these plays that were penned down centuries ago loom large in every student's psyche, quite effortlessly.

I wrote two plays before I was cast on 'The Neighbors.' They actually got published, which was cool.

I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright.

I used to just do movies for alimony purposes, between plays.

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.

I went to a drama club when I was little, but it was more of an excuse to flirt with girls than anything else. We never put on plays.

When I was a rookie, I was kind of just flying, trying to make plays.

Just working on stuff off the dribble a lot more. It's helping me create my own shot and freeing me up a little bit, being able to make plays and make shots.

Any kid in my position coming from being an All-American and all that wants to be the guy that makes all the plays coming into their freshman year.

I like having the script before I start. With new plays, you're constantly developing as you're doing it. It's really frightening. You don't quite know how it's going to end up.

I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for the author. That was Robert Wilson, something called 'Network,' which consisted of Wilson sitting on a bunk, the dialogue of the movie 'Network' looped in while a chair on a rope went up and down.

I'm just a physical player and I just try to make physical plays and just plays period for my team and do things that they need me to do to help them win.

The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.

I love being a wing, you can make plays there and also get down there to download the bigs so I feel that is the perfect position for me.