Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Winkler

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

Henry Czerny

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

Helena Christensen

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

Helen Alfredsson

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

Khalil Greene

I'm definitely looking to put together a full season. I know what I'm capable of doing. I want to be the kind of player my teammates can depend on.

Keyshawn Johnson

I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see em. I know players that can play and cant play.

Jonathan Raban

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

Jonathan Sacks

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

Jonathan Sacks

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat

Jonathan Safran Foer

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!

Narada Michael Walden

There's nothing more exciting than playing live for the people. Just play it, just do it.

Narada Michael Walden

I just want to play for the people, give my new sound to them, and encourage them and be encouraged by people.

Naomie Harris

I wanted to play roles which offered new ways of viewing black women and black people in general- and I have done that. And I have always, whether I needed to pay the rent or not, I've always turned down roles which I thought were stereotypical. And so when I look at my body of work in that respect, I am really happy. Because I feel my work does say something positive and that was what I always set out to do.

Norman Wisdom

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

Norman Wisdom

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

Norman Reedus

You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

Orson Welles

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

Orson Welles

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

Orson Welles

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

Ornette Coleman

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

Orhan Pamuk

The image that I remember most of all is of the Fenerbahçe players storming into the stadium before kickoff. They were called the canaries because of their yellow jerseys. It was as if they, like canaries, were fluttering into the stadium out of a hole. I loved it. It was poetry.

Nuno Bettencourt

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.

Michael Carrick

Paul Scholes is just fantastic. When you play alongside him, you realise what a special talent he is.

Michael Buckley

Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!

Michael C. Hall

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

Michael Cera

I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.

Michael Caine

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

Michael Caine

Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.

Michael Caine

As an actor, I'll play anything.