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Quotes About Play

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
~ Bill Vaughan
Weekends do not count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless
~ Bill Watterson
How come we play war and not peace? Too few role models.
~ Bill Watterson
Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
~ Bill Watterson
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
~ Bill Watterson
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
~ Bill Watterson
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
~ James Naismith
I don't remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them.
~ Brenda Brathwaite
When I was a baby, I was on a tennis court every day with my mom and with my brothers, so I would pick up the balls for them when they'd play, and then sometimes I'd play with them, but not very often.
~ Petra Kvitova
My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.
~ Katherine Moennig
I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!'
~ Katie Cassidy
I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'
~ Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
I was at my house, and me, and my brother, and my sister were kind of just playing around. And I was like, 'I wonder if I can twist this apple and rip it apart?' So I was playing around, and I did it, and I was like, 'Wow, that kind of takes a firm grip.'
~ Sage Northcutt
My first toy was an adjustable wrench I called 'my wrencher.'
~ Archie Manning
I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.
~ Jaime Pressly
We never had the most money, but my parents always did their best to take care of me and my brother. I had a real small but tight group of friends, and we would just ride our bikes all day after school and play video games, or we would actually wrestle out in the backyard.
~ Ricochet
I used to wrestle with my stuffed animals.
~ Dana Brooke
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a pro wrestler. Other kids wanted to be cops and astronauts, but I wanted to be Hulk Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior, 'Macho Man' Randy Savage, Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake, and Jake 'The Snake.' I wanted to be those guys! I used to tape matches on my trampoline and body-slam my brother.
~ Josh Segarra
I was very active in college. I wanted to play athletics, and then I looked at wrestling as being a viable option to do that.
~ Kane
That's really what drew me into wrestling. To see my own uncle put on the mask every Friday to go into the ring, and me putting on his masks to play wrestle with him. It was a whole different world when it came down to sports.
~ Rey Mysterio
I'm not a huge video game person. I used to always play wrestling video games growing up. My brother used to have all the games, so we would play together.
~ Paige
It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.
~ Sigourney Weaver
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
~ John Steinbeck
A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.
~ David Mamet