Quotes About Play

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it.

For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

I always say that I continue to set the standard really high for myself, but you don't get into a catch count or any of that stuff. I think it's just in how you play, how you approach the game.

I was an integral part of school plays. And when I was in the ninth standard, Om Shivpuri directed me in a play called 'The Miser.' It was a huge hit.

Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

I will take less risks. When the options aren't appearing, I will clear it into the stands or play a long ball up front.

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.

Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.