Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Darby

I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we're about, anyway. Alexander, Alexander, Alexander. But it's about the brotherhood. Shaun's a great player, but we have a lot of weapons around here.

Chuck Daly

I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

Chuck Berry

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

Chuck Berry

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.

Chuck Berry

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

Christopher Walken

I wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part of the thing. It's like Elizabethan theater. You play the scene, and then you turn - the audience is part of it.

Christopher Walken

I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.

Christopher Walken

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

Christopher Walken

I don't play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I'd like to have a crack at one of those guys. A heartbreaker. Some people are born to it. I'm not.

Christopher Walken

I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who want to take over something.

Christopher Walken

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

Christopher Walken

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

Christopher Marlowe

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Christopher Meloni

I don't get called very often to play innocents.

Christopher Meloni

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things

Annie Proulx

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

Anne Boleyn

I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.

Anne Bronte

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

Angie Harmon

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

Angelina Jolie

I always play women I would date.

Andrew Bird

The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.

Andrew Bird

I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.

Andrew Bird

I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.

Andrew Bird

I still play solo shows. And some of those shows are still some of the best, most gratifying shows.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Andrew Bird

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

Amy Acker

Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.

Amy Adams

I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

Alvin Lee

I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.

Ally McCoist

I'll play for Rangers as long as I can, then spend the rest of my life being depressed

Anne Tyler

... everyone must play his role.

Anna Lindh

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.