Quotes About Play

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.

I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

I started playing football with my mates and my brothers, in the playground or the park or the front garden. It was just about enjoying it, having a good time playing. I wanted to play all the time.

My playground growing up was the fields and forests.

It's more fun to be playing hockey than doing anything else.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

My only concern is playing. Everything else, my family looks after. In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play football.

I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it's fun. It's almost better than chocolate ice cream.

When people ask me what I think about when I'm playing, I picture myself as a 10-year-old girl, playing in the park, scoring a goal and then celebrating. That's when I'm playing best.

I grew up on a farm playing backyard footie in my bare feet.

For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.

Those moments of play that we do get in meta-life, like playing music, or golf, or word-play, or flirting - those are some of the best parts about being alive.

You can only get fit by playing games. There's only so many training sessions you can do.

I love playing games, but also training.

I am so happy when I feel emotion about the way my team plays.

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.

I'm just going to go play football - fly around and make some plays. That's all that matters.

I want to play for a team that plays every competition to win.

I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

Games have no other purpose than to please.

I was growing up in England and England was the only national team I knew, so I was actually very pleased to play at the national level.