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Quotes About Plays

If you go out and practice super hard and then you go play in the game, it's going to be a lot more natural for you. You'll be able to catch the ball and think fast and start making plays, making people miss and turning it into the next phase of the play rather than just catching the ball and being surprised and happy that you caught the ball.
~ Davante Adams
I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
~ Orson Welles
I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.
~ Wes Anderson
Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
~ Adam Driver
I'm wary of artistic directors who say, 'Here is my vision', because it's empirical. Basically it's about who you work with and what plays you put on; the vision comes out of that.
~ Richard Eyre
rest of the court, to watch the Golden Plays?" "I can't. Tomorrow is dress rehearsal for the Treaty Eve concert.
~ Rachel Hartman
My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
~ Rainn Wilson
Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?
~ Mark Waters
I don't think I've been in a supporting role in any of the plays I've done, ever.
~ Penelope Wilton
My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.
~ Angela Bassett
I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.
~ Ray Walston
From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.
~ Wallace Shawn
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
~ Jonathan Swift
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.
~ Norman Jewison
Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays.
~ John O'Hara
My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.
~ Lauren Graham
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
~ Vince Lombardi
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
~ Bruce Beresford
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
~ Theo James
School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.
~ Calvin Trillin, About Alice
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they They are the happiest people in the world.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.
~ David Hunt
I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
~ Harold Pinter