Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lahr

I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.

John Barrowman

Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.

Jodi Kantor

Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romneys is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.

Jodie Foster

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

Jodie Foster

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

Jimmy Dean

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Jimmy Connors

There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.

Jimmy Connors

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

Julie Bishop

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Josh Howard

I wasn't expecting to do what I'm doing now...I've grown as a player and as a man.

Josh Howard

When I make exciting plays, it's usually because I was in the right place at the right time.

Josh Howard

It took me a while to realize I'm an NBA player.

Josh Hutcherson

It's cool to play a vampire.

Josh Hutcherson

It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.

Karch Kiraly

The first thing I do when I get there—like all of the players on tour—is apply sunscreen. One of the few hazards of the job is the wear-and-tear our skin takes from the sun.

Kate Hudson

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life

Justin Morneau

I love Minnesota, and I'd love to play my whole career here.

Josh Lucas

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

Josh Radnor

You know, I'm not saying, 'Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a movie.' I look at it more like: does this role has a kind of urgency for me in terms of, 'Can I not say no to it for whatever reason?'

Joshua Bell

If you mess up the tiniest little thing in the Beethoven concerto, or the phrasing isn't just exactly perfectly executed, Beethoven brings out the worst in the best violinist. You almost never hear a satisfying performance, because it doesn't play itself.

Joshua Bell

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.

Joshua Bell

When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.

Joshua Bell

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.

Joshua Bell

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

Joshua Bell

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

Josh Williams

Ultimately the presence of other well known players is driving us to build a more compelling, innovative product.

Joseph Gatt

Yep, I'm a geek. Ever since I got the Millennium Falcon for Christmas in 1978. And I still have it, in perfect condition, just without the box... but I still play with it!

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.

Kate Spade

As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends.

Kasey Chambers

If my music doesn't fit, I understand, ... If I'm to play my music, that's the way it's gonna be.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

Justin Chadwick

My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.

Leonard Bernstein

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.