Quotes About Play

That was my costume for the past five years. A hobo. Actually, it wasn't much of a costume. I wore one of Dad's baggy old suits with patches on the pants. Mom rubbed charcoal on my face to make me look dirty. And I carried a knapsack on a fishing pole over my shoulder. Bor-ring!

Now play nicely , make-believe dead girl

You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane

It's an excuse to let their vilest impulses out to play.

It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning.

To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.

Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.

Olivia wondered whose idea it was to see the play. To Kill a Mockingbird wasn't the sort of entertainment she suspected a man like Warren would choose. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas seemed more his kind of show.

You can have mythic allusions in houses with flat roofs, and you can also play on the roof.

of the invasion forces who were to be sealed into them and no longer allowed to communicate with the outside world once they had been briefed in the parts they were to play.

I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog....Only in the novel are all things given full play.

Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the journey pleasantly in reciting lines to himself, being careful not to snort.

Of course I have aspirations and ambitions to play for my country.

I just play. I'm not one to think about it. If I get one assist and we win, that's great. Otherwise, I could care less.

Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about.

People assume that actors working in films won't have the time to do theatre. But I make sure that whenever I'm free, I watch a play.

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

My kids are athletic, but they don't run.

I wasn't very athletic as a kid.

What I've certainly learned is that whenever I've said anything about real politics, I've come under attack. So it's best simply to play politics on television.

I always played attacking football.

In England, theater auditions are gentler experiences. You sit down with the director and talk about the play.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

I'd never done any Beckett before 'Krapp,' and I haven't done any of his other plays since. I've always felt that 'Krapp' is an autobiographical piece.