Quotes About Play

There are always games where you play for important things, but the semifinal of the Champions League is a responsibility.

We're not trying to impress anybody. We're not trying to change anybody's mind. We're just out there playing, and it's something we love.

Nobody's impressed back home. All my friends were going, 'Oh right, so you're doing a play up in Leeds? Another depressing one is it? Do you mind if we don't bother coming?' I love that.

I have said that if I leave Bayern I will go abroad. Then came this interesting offer from Liverpool. I took the loan offer seriously and discussed it with my family and girlfriend because I just want to play. But Bayern gave me the impression that they see a future for me. And therefore a change was not an issue anymore.

You've got something really angsty for me to play? Bring it on. Most of the time, I'm goofing around and doing impressions of people, so that's nice.

It's not like I go around trying to imprint all the characters I play with Q.

I spent a lot of time in Chicago at a place called The Annoyance Theater, where we would develop one-act plays through improv, and you would just improvise scenes and then discover something about the character and use it in the next scene.

A good play can teach so much about culture. One can also improvise a lot with the medium and use it to teach kids.

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

Just find things you think are fun, and then you'll be more inclined to want to go work out.

I was incredibly competitive, growing up with two brothers; we'd argue and play against each other in the garden continuously. If we have a competition, I want to beat them.

I've been really lucky; I've had the opportunity to play so many roles. I can't imagine a more fortunate career for an actor. I feel incredibly lucky.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

Even at that early age, Leslie loved to play in Cartaret Park. As much as any of the neighborhood boys, she was at home there; giggling, she'd roll in the grass for hours or climb to the top of the jungle gym in a great scrambling burst of energy. What set her apart in those first years of her life was her almost unslakable thirst for attention and affection. A smile, a pat, a wink, a wave, she loved it, she reveled in it. Most children want attention: Leslie craved it.

A school's version of fun can never compete with the street's version of fun.

La pygmée Nuçx'ia se dit que la nature a beaucoup moins de limites que l'esprit humain. La jeune gemme songe que la vie aime qu'on joue avec elle, elle n'est pas conservatrice, elle est ludique.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

I don't give a chicken's sorry ass who taught you. I just want to play.

They began swinging high and higher as the sky opened its arms wide.

Life Is A Challenge - Meet It Life Is A Song - Sing It Life Is A Dream - Realize It Life Is A Game - Play It Life Is Love - Enjoy It

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.

blocking out the sunlight increases the ability of the lawyers to play with the shadows.

I remember it was a nativity type setting. An exit light shining down. There were three truck drivers there. One guy was carrying butter, one guy had frankfurters, and the other guy was a retired baseball scout who told my folks that I probably had a chance to play somewhere down the line.