Quotes About Play

Usually on 'Yo Gabba Gabba,' we eat healthy and organic. We don't play.

What's so wonderful about the street is it's organic music. No preservatives. There's no other reason to be out there except you just love music and want to play.

The moment your kids start crawling, they are exercising. To them, movement is fun and organic... It is adults who have turned daily activity into a mandatory chore.

When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.

I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history.

When we grew up, we had YMCAs. Organizations and places where kids went to play.

Our whole family had been sports oriented. My dad had played a lot of semipro but never had any opportunity to do anything with it. Back then, he had to make a living.

Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.

My Oscar has appeared in every play I've done since - not in view of the audience, but for my colleagues to enjoy.

In the process of writing '13,' friends were asking if I was OK because I was saying things about religion or about intervening in other countries militarily that I wouldn't normally spout over dinner. In the moment of writing the play, I genuinely changed what I thought.

In Brazil, U.S., Japan and some other countries, there are many sports being played and I hope that will be the case in India as well. Sports is good for the country.

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

I would watch 'Sesame Street' and see neighborhoods and kids with other kids to play with, and I just didn't have that. You know, we were on a lake. We just didn't have that stuff.

Cooking ought to be, quite literally, child's play. And every child ought to have access to the game. Just don't tell them it's healthy.

I think a director can make a play happen before your eyes so that you are part of it and it is part of you. If you can get it right, there's no mystery. It's not about mystery. It's not even mysterious. It's about our lives.

The challenge of weaning ourselves off fossil fuel even as it becomes more abundant will make the old fights about energy conservation seem like child's play.

I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.

When I have free time, which I wish I had more of, playing frisbee is a great way to get outdoors and have a bit of fun.

One of the questions I get asked a lot is, 'What do you do to stay in shape?' My glib answer is, 'I play.' But I mean it. Sure, I go to the gym, but I don't spend my life there. Most of my activity is outdoors, whether it's basketball or mountain biking or rock climbing.

I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid.

I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.

We don't own a TV. My kids are always outdoors.

We had a court, and my brothers would play outdoors, with rims barely hanging in there.

As a kid, we were outdoors as much as possible.