Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mamet

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

David Fincher

I want stuff to play as wide as possible. I want to be able to see... if I could play the whole thing in a master and it could be compelling enough, that'd be great. Then it simplifies my day, it simplifies life for the actors when you could just focus on that. But by the same token I don't want to be forced into coverage. So I want it to be as good from every angle and I need to get as many of the kind of shadings that I want from every angle.

David Ayer

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

Donald Sutherland

I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.

Don McLean

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

Don Baylor

I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

Don Baylor

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

Dylan Walsh

It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to decide what you play. I don't know. I can only say this: I don't want to and have no interest in playing a plastic surgeon. That's for sure. I'm open to anything else.

Dylan O'Brien

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

Doug Stanhope

I've never tried to drive my career in any particular direction. I've always been an in-the-moment, live-for-today guy. I've never had a goal, and nearly everything I've done has been an accident. I just play to me, and if I can amuse myself, I consider it a victory.

Douglas Adams

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.

Donald Fagen

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

Don Sutton

I'm the most loyal player money can buy.

Donal Logue

I love not feeling this hydraulic pressure that you have to create this comic moment within every scene. You can just play it as it is.

Dale Carnegie

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Cristiano Ronaldo

I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely.

Constance Jablonski

I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

Constantin Stanislavski

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants.

Constantin Stanislavski

Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

Corbin Bernsen

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

Daniel Radcliffe

I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can.

Daniel Radcliffe

I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry Potter.

Damian Lewis

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

Cynthia Nixon

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

Cynthia Nixon

I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

Cory Lidle

On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.

Count Basie

Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.

Count Basie

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

Clive Barnes

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

Clinton Portis

I can be a receiver, a cornerback, a safety and quarterback-I can play everything.

Clinton Portis

Everybody who I play always wants to use me, so I always tell them that I'm the only one who knows how to stop Portis, so go ahead.

Clinton Portis

I don't feel like I have to live up to anything because I've proven that I can play. Give me the ball and let's go.

Clive James

A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water.