Quotes About Play

I'm amazed people talk about my helmet - saying it makes me feel psychologically better. I would love to play without it, but I'm not allowed to by the doctor. As long as I'm told by the doctor I'm running too much risk to play without it, I'll play with it. There's no other way for me.

I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.

It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf.

When you play hockey, you don't have any fear. As soon as you step on the ice everything goes away and you're focusing on the puck and focusing on the play.

I like to play the puck. I like to be creative a little bit around my net, and now it's been taken away.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that I wasn't onstage. I was a cheerleader, president of choir, and in the school play.

I used to dig around the sandbox and pull out pieces of coal and show them to my mother, and she used to say that's how I must have known I was going to be a geologist.

I've studied a lot of different players throughout the years. One of the ones that I think I've pulled a lot of his stuff and tried to incorporate into my game, and that's Larry Fitzgerald. The way that he's able to recognize schemes, pre-snap, allows him to play faster once the play starts.

In the NFL you can't say this game is the biggest game ever and you get all pumped up and you go win and then you're like 'alright we did it' and then you go out and you play bad for the next two or three. Like every week you've got to be ready to go because they're all big games.

I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

There's nothing like working with the best actors possible, and if you have a piece of material like, 'Long Way Down' or 'Love Punch,' which allows you to play, then it's just a joy to go to work.

Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.

At school, I was always the new boy, so I always went in for the school play. It was a way of breaking the ice and making friends with pupils and teachers for however long I had before moving on.

In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show.

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

If I was to play any song for anybody asking, 'What is metal about?' I'd just play 'Master of Puppets.' The progressions and the bridge are brilliant.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different.

My father pushed me to be a footballer. At every opportunity, he took me with him to play football. He came with me to matches.

I have an elder brother who adores me and pushed me towards my goal. He just said 'go out and play.'

For me, the amazing thing was entering into this amazing world of 'Sesame Street.' We'd be in the kids' room, and there was a door into the soundstage that said '1-2-3 Open Sesame.' I remember pushing that door open and going into this incredible magical world of make-believe. In one episode, I was playing football with Joe Namath.