Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herb Alpert

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

Herb Alpert

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

Jean Paul Gaultier

To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.

Jillian Bell

My goal is to always play interesting and very odd women.

Jill Scott

I had to wear a fat suit to play Mma Ramotswe in 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.' She's described as being like a small elephant, but she loves her body and size. When we were filming in Africa, it was 110F. It was torturous. I drank a lot of water and ate cucumbers all the time, and underneath the fat suit, I shed pounds - I couldn't help it.

Jill Scott

I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I'm in touch with the deepest emotions within. It took me a while to learn that whatever I feel like doing is the right thing. If I want to play an invisible instrument, I will.

Jessica Hahn

Michael Jackson asked me to sign a Playboy. I was more than happy to.

Jessica Chastain

I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work.

Jerry Glanville

He can be a great player in this league if he learns how to say two words: "I'm full."

Jerry Garcia

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.

Jeremy Bulloch

Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again.

Jeremy Grantham

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value-that they have stopped playing the asset game. They're not buying because it's a company with certain attributes. They're buying because the price is rising. People are playing games not related to any concept at all of what the long-term value of the enterprise is. And they know it.

Jennifer Capriati

You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.

Jennifer Capriati

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

Jennifer Capriati

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

Jennifer Coolidge

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.

Jeff Vandermeer

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

Jeff Garcia

Plays have to be made, and we have to find a way to make them. All of us.

Jeff Goldblum

I like the idea of being a student, and I play with very good musicians. So playing with them allows me to get better. My aim is to get better, but I really love it for its own sake.

Jean Sibelius

For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony,

Jerome Lawrence

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

Jerome Lawrence

Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.

Jerome K. Jerome

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

Jens Lehmann

To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

Jens Lehmann

They know how to play well but they do not know how to go through a whole tournament. We have been there and done it. They haven't.

Jens Lehmann

At the moment I'm just swallowing it all as part of the humiliation but I think - and this is aimed at my dear manager - one shouldn't humiliate players for too long

Jensen Ackles

Any guy in his right mind would die to play Batman.

Jenson Button

If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of ,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right.

Jeffrey Hunter

You try to get the feel of any role, but it's much more difficult in the case of Christ because everyone has their own personal image of Him. It's a role you take on, knowing that no matter how you play it, you are going to disappoint many.

Jeffrey Kluger

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

Jeffrey Kluger

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.

Jeff Healey

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.