Quotes About Play

I owe a lot to playing on the street. And what was even better than playing on the street was playing football with my friends in the local graveyard. It was fantastic. We forgot what the time was and didn't even go home for our meals.

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

The pace of play is very important whether I'm watching baseball, tennis or golf.

I don't care what level you play at, when you've got pace and the level of attacking intent you're going to make an impact.

Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.

Plays are not written but rewritten, and much of the rewriting takes place at the behest of the director, whose job it is to grapple with the myriad complexities of moving a play from the page to the stage.

Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

I just try to make the right play, stay aggressive and defensively just do what I do. I make sure I talk to everyone and control the paint.

Yes, it's possible to play computer games on your own and many do. But I also see children playing them in pairs and fours for hours on end and the air is full of talk and banter.

When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones.

This whole thing has become a pantomime.

Children are the keys of paradise.

It's a parent's dream come true to watch your sons play at the highest level of college basketball.

As a parent, I tell my boys to keep away their smartphones and go outdoors and play. I take them to our farm where my father does a bit of farming, where they get their hands dirty. It is their digital detox.

Being able to build with my kids using my own Lego pieces that I've had for over 30 years combined with their new sets, that's really special. I can't think of anything else that was part of my childhood and now part of my parenthood.

Childhood is a short season.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.

I'm happy in Paris, I'm happy to play with great players and to be part of an ambitious project.

My happiest moments are when I'm with my family and when I go to the park at school with my friends.

I grew up playing against friends and cousins in the park and it was some of the most competitive cricket I have played.