Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lily James

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

Lily Rabe

I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.

Lin Yutang

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

Lesley-Anne Down

We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.

Les Paul

I don't know of a guitar player that has only one guitar. They're never happy with one. I'm never happy with just one of them. I woke up and ended up with six, even if you can only play one at a time!

Les Paul

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

Les Claypool

My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

Les Claypool

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

Lennie James

I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.

Lennie James

If you're very clearly good or you're very clearly bad, then there isn't that much internal dilemma going on, and that's not necessarily as interesting to play.

Lenny Kravitz

If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from the '60s and the '70s - who the guitar player is, who the drummer is, who the producer was, what studio it was recorded in. That's how I grew up listening to music. We bought albums. We read the liner notes. It was important to know the whole history behind it.

Lenny Kravitz

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

Lenny Kravitz

I don't play the tuba.

Lenny Kravitz

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

Lenny Kravitz

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

Lenny Kravitz

We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.

Lee Corso

I wouldn't want to play LSU right now even if I were the Indianapolis Colts.

Lee Hall

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.

Laurie Holden

I'd love to play a femme fatale. And I wouldn't mind working with George Clooney.

Laura Benanti

What's the worst, is when people clearly haven't researched you. One time an interviewer asked me if I do a lot of plays. I'm like, yeah. Have you Googled me? There's this thing called Google, and you can ask Google that question. Then you could come to me with informed questions that didn't make me feel like I am brand new to the world.

Lara St. John

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

Lara St. John

Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.

Larry Bird

If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

Larry Bird

Guys like Larry Bird -- he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That's not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.

Thom Yorke

I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.

Theophilus London

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

Terry Venables

Everybody says Steve McManaman played on the left for me in Euro 96 but he never played on the left. The one time he did play on the left was against Switzerland.

Terry Francona

Sometimes you've got to be a little flexible. For the most part, it's hard to get players to look at the big picture also. I understand that. They're looking at their next start or their next at-bat.

Terry Francona

Once players have my trust, they have it.

Terry Brooks

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Teresa Medeiros

You care enough to play hard to get.

Tennessee Williams

Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back.

Terence McKenna

Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.