Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Sondheim

Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

Minnie Driver

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

Minor White

While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.

Mira Sorvino

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

Miranda Cosgrove

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

Mike Krzyzewski

Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.

Paula Poundstone

If only someone would do for cows what Bambi did for deer. Cows have been in films, but they haven't starred. I'm still willing to eat a species that is only a supporting player.

Paul Walker

If you play with people who are better than you, then you get better.

Peter Tork

Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.

Peter Tosh

When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.

Peter Lawrence

One of the biggest benefits of playing box for a young lacrosse player is in the development of lacrosse IQ. Because everyone plays with a short stick [in box lacrosse], you have to focus on being a complete lacrosse player versus specializing as an attackman or d-man. That is how your IQ grows and skills improve.

Peter Erskine

The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers.

Peter Facinelli

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.

Peter Bondra

We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.

Peter Berg

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

Pele

He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives Brazilians the most joy. (on Ronaldinho)

Pele

Everyone talks about the forwards, the players when they are scoring goals. But sometimes I look for the complete player not just the players who score but those who can pass.

Pele

We're not great friends, but I admire him. If he thinks he's the best player of the century, that's his problem.

Pele

George Best was the greatest player in the world.

Pavel Datsyuk

I don't remember those early playoff games. Keep it positive. I'm a different player. More focused. I know how important it is to score in the playoffs.

Peabo Bryson

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

Payne Stewart

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

Phil Collins

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

Phil Collins

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

Peter Sellers

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

Peter Sarsgaard

I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.

Peter Sagal

After Luis Suarez of Uruguay bit an Italian opponent in the shoulder, two things happened. Suarez was thrown out of the rest of the tournament, and the player he bit turned Uruguayan.

Peter Sagal

In the ruling, Justice Roberts, who wrote the decision, referred to cell phones as not just phones but, quote, "cameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, and diaries," unquote. Plus, he went on, best friends, lovers...

Peter Senge

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.

Peter Jacobson

I can play a Jewish guy, another Jewish guy, and then another Jewish guy, and then maybe a Cuban guy. Or at least a Middle Eastern guy. But for me, they're all Jews.

Peter Jacobson

If it's a good role, I'm happy to play it.

Peter Jacobson

I don't usually get to play somebody who is, at least, nominally in charge. I'm usually playing somebody's lawyer or a doctor.

Peter Capaldi

I knew Richard E. Grant, and I went to him and said "Would you like to [play Kafka in the film]?" and he said yeah, and then suddenly I had all these people who were happy to come along. We got a little bit of money from Scottish Screen to pay for it. I got so many favors because I knew people in the business. I was in a remarkably good position. I got so many favors from people. I got the Monty Python technical people.