Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evan Parker

My roots are in my record player.

Evangeline Lilly

You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.

Eva Herzigova

I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.

Eva Green

French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

Eva Green

I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell!

Muriel Rukeyser

There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.

Moby

I honestly haven't thought much about what to play and where, perhaps i should...it seems like most musicians are better at that than I am.

Moby

I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

Moby

When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.

Moby

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

Mindy Kaling

All women love Colin Firth: Mr. Darcy, Mark Darcy, George VI—at this point he could play the Craigslist Killer and people would be like, 'Oh my God, the Craigslist Killer has the most boyish smile!

Mike Quade

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

Mike Quade

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.

Mike Quade

We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

Miguel Tejada

I've worked hard with my body, just in case someone needs me to play third or short. I'm happy to go back to short, it's my natural position. I'm here to help and here to do whatever the manager wants me to do.

Mika Brzezinski

Women play into each other's weaknesses.

Mickey Rourke

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

Kurt Masur

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

Kurt Masur

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

Kristy McNichol

A lot of people have wondered what Ive been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

Ksenia Solo

In my life and in my career, I really love to play different roles. I never want to play the same role twice.

Krysten Ritter

When you prepare for something, you can then play around; you're not as worried about remembering your lines because you already know them so well. That's where you can find the freedom. So I'm all about prep work.

Harry Shearer

The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."

Hanley Ramirez

I don't have pressure on me. I just put pressure on myself to play hard every day.

Hanley Ramirez

The fans here, they've been unbelievable. You've got to play hard for them.

Hanley Ramirez

You've got to play for whoever you play for.

Frank Zappa

The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.

Fred Melamed

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

Fred Rogers

It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

Fred Rogers

Play is really the work of childhood

Frank Herbert

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib

Frank Herbert

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune

George H. W. Bush

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.