play quotes

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

I look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ‚cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.

If music be the food of love, play on.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

During my school days, I was doing a play, and my costume fell on the stage. I really wish it didn’t happen.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Sometimes I’d like to play the bad guy and sometimes I’d like to die in a movie.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Life must be lived as play.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.