All Quotes

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
‐‐ Anne Stevenson

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.
‐‐ Julie Andrews

I play with toys. I have one plane that travels with me. It travels with the equipment.
‐‐ Bobby Keys

I play 'World of Warcraft,' which means I end up hanging out with teenage boys a lot.
‐‐ Jane Goldman

I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.
‐‐ Tom Hardy

I play Xbox in my underwear.
‐‐ Mark Salling

I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.
‐‐ Eric Christian Olsen

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.
‐‐ Jessica Pare

I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
‐‐ Gary Sinise

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.
‐‐ Bo Derek

I played a doctor on 'Chicago Hope' 15 years or so ago, and I did go and watch an open heart surgery.
‐‐ Thomas Gibson

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
‐‐ Henny Youngman

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.
‐‐ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.
‐‐ Stellan Skarsgard

I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do something slightly different. I was a very camp bodyguard!
‐‐ Dave Legeno

I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

I played a lawyer in a movie, so, many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.
‐‐ Reese Witherspoon

I played a lawyer once, and I had about three or four weeks before we shot, so I was able to go to court and watch lawyers at work. Some were good lawyers and some were bad lawyers, but it was essential. The more time you have to prepare, the better. Always.
‐‐ Ben Bass

I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. 'You're in theater but you can play football?'
‐‐ Dennis Haysbert

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

I played a little bit of 'City of Heroes' - they have a really great character generation system. I was pretty impressed with that. I played 'World of Warcraft' with my kids. That's a lot of fun.
‐‐ Jim Lee

I played a lot of acetates at the end of my vinyl period - I used to make tracks and get them pressed in four or five days - but the quality was always so bad and they would skip all the time. The vinyl days for me are over. I still buy vinyl, but only albums, and just to play. For DJing, vinyl is a nightmare.
‐‐ Tiesto

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
‐‐ Caroline Shaw

I played a lot of baseball growing up, and I always hit better if I kept moving before the pitch instead of standing still in the batter's box. I think a waggle does the same thing in the golf swing. It keeps you relaxed and gets your body ready to hit the ball.
‐‐ Jason Dufner

I played a lot of character parts in school.
‐‐ Matthew Ashford

I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.
‐‐ Shania Twain

I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.
‐‐ D'Angelo

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.
‐‐ Leslie Nielsen

I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.
‐‐ Retief Goosen

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
‐‐ Jack Layton

I played a lot of the original 'Fight Night.' I think the depiction of Trinidad in the game was awesome.
‐‐ Diego Corrales

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.
‐‐ Henny Youngman

I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
‐‐ Sam Bradford

I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
‐‐ A. J. Buckley

I played a paraplegic on a show called 'Neighbours.' Just turned up on set, sat in a wheelchair. The producer came up to me one day and said, 'We have to cut around that entire scene because your leg was moving.'
‐‐ Liam Hemsworth

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.
‐‐ Morgan Brittany

I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.
‐‐ Olivier Martinez

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
‐‐ Lawrence Welk

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

I played a waiter on 'Will & Grace,' a waiter on 'Medium' and on 'Weeds.' They all got cut out. I'm an awful waiter in real life. Maybe I was an awful waiter on screen, too.
‐‐ Kyle Bornheimer

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.
‐‐ Alan Hansen

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.
‐‐ Dirk Nowitzki

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.
‐‐ Johnny Bench

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.'
‐‐ LeRoy Neiman

I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.
‐‐ F. W. de Klerk