Quotes About Plays

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

My teammates trust me; they know I make the right plays. I'm not a selfish guy.

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.

It's extremely important that plays reflect contemporary times and should not just be about asking for social change without having any connect with the audience.

She performed for the Dutch Resistance, not just to raise money but also to entertain people and to take their minds off the horrors they were living through. They would do plays and little musicals, trying to be discreet and not bring the attention of the soldiers.

Cristiano is an unbalancing player. His confidence allows him to pull off the plays he does. He naturally always looks for the best solution.

Some of the things I've done in my life, I've done to make money because I had to make money... and some things I did just because they were on my mind and they were of interest to me... some of the little plays I wrote.

I was a mediocre basketball player. But I was there, and I could remember the plays. And my basketball coach, after he retired from teaching, would come to my performances all the time. And I was very happy about that, because I was not memorable as a basketball player.

I did Christmas plays at school, but they banned me because I was messing about. And I was like, 'Ah, why?' Because I was getting attention, everyone was laughing at me and I was loving it, I thought, 'This feels good!'

I'm really aging myself, but I grew up with 'Playhouse 90' and the plays on the air - 90 minute plays.

We love the plays, the great characters, the fabulous speeches, the witty repartee even in times of duress. I hope never to be mortally stabbed, but if I am, I'd sure like to have the self-possession, when asked if it's bad, to answer, No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve, as Mercutio does in Romeo and Juliet. I mean, to be dying and clever at the same time, how can you not love that?

To read Shakespeare is to feel encompassed -- the plays contain practically every word I know, practically every character type I have ever met, and practically every idea I have ever had.

I just want to be a guy that's reliable, make sure I take care of the football, make plays in situational downs, get in the end zone, help the offense move the ball, and win games.

In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows, like the Australian equivalent of 'SNL.' I would write and perform all of my characters.

You couldn't keep me out of the school plays, the song and dance skits.

Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.

He was bursting with enthusiasms. He probably loved many things: the hawk in flight, the god-damned ocean, full moon, Balzac, bridges, stage plays, the Pulitzer Prize, the piano, the god-damned Bible.

I remember writing monologues and one-act plays and stuff in high school. I had a project in English that was just a short book of limericks. It was so weird. I enjoyed the challenge and rhyme of it. I was always putting on plays and stuff.

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

His radio plays include: If You're Glad I'll Be Frank, Albert's Bridge (Italia Prize), Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending A Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, In the Native State (Sony Award).

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way contradicting yourself.