Quotes About Plays

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays, an idea of infinite possibility.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I love the spontaneity of plays and of being onstage, because that's an energy that you can't really fabricate in movies.

The Huntington Theatre has a really fine reputation. I was keenly aware of how well thought of they are and that they develop and support new plays.

I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

Technology is going to be good for football, but it will take time to adjust. The important thing is that the games have rhythm; at the beginning, it will be complicated, but there are plays that require it.

I think you always try to put the offense in the best position to make good plays, which usually requires us to move multiple people around and give them an opportunity to impact a game in a lot of different ways.

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.

In theater, what I loved were wordless plays and working in silence.

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

I was always putting on plays for my family. Usually silly ones. I used my imagination a lot, and it was something that came naturally to me.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when I was growing up, but I can't think of anything that happened or anybody in particular who inspired me; it all came from within.

There is a lot of instinct that comes with playing hockey and playing a number of games and playing all the way up; you kind of get a feel for what's gonna happen and make plays off that.

The NBA is intense, but the NFL is a whole 'nother level of intensity and dramatic, game-changing plays.

Robert said, "How can you waste your time on something that won't make money?" "Didn't you used to write plays?" I asked.