All Quotes

Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.
‐‐ Anna D. Shapiro

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
‐‐ David Ives

Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the Bard's lines came from onstage improvisations by actors.
‐‐ Clive Thompson

Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.
‐‐ Lynn Nottage

Plays are not written but rewritten, and much of the rewriting takes place at the behest of the director, whose job it is to grapple with the myriad complexities of moving a play from the page to the stage.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
‐‐ Beth Henley

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
‐‐ Garry Hynes

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
‐‐ George Takei

Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK, I got it. I know what's happening.'
‐‐ Mike Nichols

Plays have been made of my comics.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Plays which are universal tempt me. 'August: Osage County' is a play which is relevant to the urban Indian set up.
‐‐ Lillete Dubey

PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3.
‐‐ Steve Zahn

PlayStation consolidated the second wave of gaming. There was a slack period before it came when nothing much was happening.
‐‐ Jeff Minter

Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.
‐‐ Jim Cantalupo

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
‐‐ Peter Ustinov

Playwrights are naturally wary and protective - God, who's more protective than a playwright? You read a play, the playwright wants to hear from you immediately.
‐‐ Gene Saks

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
‐‐ Katori Hall

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
‐‐ T. S. Eliot

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.
‐‐ John Patrick Shanley

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
‐‐ Lucretius

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
‐‐ Lucretius

Pleasant speech yields joy to all, and observing this, is there any need for unpleasant speech?
‐‐ Thiruvalluvar

'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
‐‐ Gary Ross

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.
‐‐ Giacomo Meyerbeer

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
‐‐ Groucho Marx

Please all, and you will please none.
‐‐ Aesop

Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.
‐‐ The Notorious B.I.G.

Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.
‐‐ Valerie Jarrett

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.
‐‐ Susannah McCorkle

Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.
‐‐ Colin Mochrie

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.
‐‐ Anna Held

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
‐‐ Hans Bender

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.
‐‐ Helen Reddy

Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
‐‐ George H. W. Bush

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.
‐‐ Michael Palin

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.
‐‐ Jose Mourinho

Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.
‐‐ Halsey

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.
‐‐ Steve Burns

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Please don't quote me.
‐‐ Mike Piazza

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
‐‐ Anna Magnani

Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Please don't throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay.
‐‐ Liam Payne

Please, don't use a cornice as a doorstop. At least put it somewhere where people will have to look up at it. Architectural details really ought to be displayed in the same relation to the viewer as they were originally intended.
‐‐ Hugh Hardy