Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vinoba Bhave

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

Vincent D'Onofrio

So, it's always different. Some stuff, you want to do because it's a part that you've never played. It's always for story. Sometimes there's a story that you really dig, but there's no part that you're interested in. Sometimes you read a story and you say, "I could do that. I've never done that before. I could do play that part."

Vinnie Jones

In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and myself. We're bikers, and I play Billy Wings; I've got all sorts of wings, and you have to watch the movie to find out what the wings are about.

I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the singers, to explore and expand your horizons.

Woody Hayes

The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.

Woody Guthrie

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

Woody Harrelson

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

Woody Allen

Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?

Woody Allen

The less I speak to the actors, the better. And I always hire great people, and I don't want to impose my pre-conceived notions on them. They know how to play it.

William Wordsworth

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

William J. Clinton

If there's grass in the field, play ball!

William J. Clinton

Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.

William Fichtner

Sometimes the scene is a sad scene but you have to play it with a laugh to find out that that doesn't work or that there's really a part of that in it, and that's what rehearsal is for, to take that time.

William Gaddis

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

Will Carling

People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax.

Will Forte

Different scenes call for different acting styles. The kinds of scenes I like most are the ones where you just bury yourself in there. So I wouldn't say that's the only way to be funny, but that's my favorite way to play stuff, to try to put myself in a situation where that kind of acting is necessary.

Will Davis

It's very different. You do so many things in this play. You can't just focus on acting or singing. You have to be good at both. I'm very glad I did this play.

Will Cuppy

If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up , he will roll over to prove that he is dead. [Footnote:] While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.

Will Ferrell

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?

Whitey Herzog

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

Whitey Herzog

The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

Saoirse Ronan

I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.

Warren Gatland

For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and moulding them into my own personality.

Warren Gatland

Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times in a row. That's what great players do, but they also work incredibly hard off the field in terms of the extra effort they've put into making sure their own performance gets better.

Warren Gatland

As a coach, I want players to challenge me, to question me and ask why we're doing a certain thing, so they feel that they're taking ownership.

Warren Moon

I was always geared towards either wanting to finish number one or be number one as far as the best player that I could be, or be the best player at my position in the league. I wanted that to be a constant reminder to my teammates that they looked to their leader who is wearing that number, this is what you should strive for as well.

Ronald Reagan

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Winston Churchill

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

Wilmer Valderrama

I play opposite Beverly D'Angelo, and that was definitely a great time.

Will Oldham

I do an opening, and then I go up to the high balcony in the back and watch the bulk of the play, but then I have to leave my seat about seven to 10 minutes before the end of that final big scene...and it's a bummer.

Will Oldham

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

Wes Montgomery

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

Wes Moore

The importance of high expectations plays a big role.