Play Quotes - Page 31

• As an actor, you have to just think about the truth of your character. You have to think about how to play the character in the way that you know it needs to be played in your heart and why you were hired.

  Emma Stone

  Heart, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't ever want to do a movie where you shoot it on a motion capture stage. I just don't like taking the reality out of it. I like being on the set in real environments. I don't like shooting on green screen. I think it gives the actors so much more to play with when there's real stuff happening on the set.

  Michael Bay

  Real, Thinking, Giving

  Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.

  Ryan Gosling

  Character, Thinking, Class

  "Ryan Gosling Talks Blue Valentine". Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• It's a game of failure [softball]. Everybody would play, that was easy and everyone's not playing because it is so tough. But it's a matter of keep plugging away, keep working hard, believing in yourself and it is a team sport and there is nothing better than being out there, having a ball in your hand, playing the game that you love and ultimately that's what it comes down is having fun and enjoying it.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Sports, Fun

  "Jennie Finch Interviewed by Gary Leland". fastpitch.tv. March 13, 2014.

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• What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

  Laura Linney

  Investment, Happens, Only Time

  Interview with Matthew Broderick, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 22, 2010.

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• Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn't so easy to decide which position is correct.

  David Bezmozgis

  Perspective, Different, Looks

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?

  Barbra Streisand

  Art, Children, Grief

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• The more famous an actress becomes, the less she's allowed to eat. Unless she wants to play people's mothers. And in bad clothes, yet.

  Lana Turner

  Mother, Clothes, People

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• I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.

  Ornette Coleman

  Sex, Audience, Organs

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• Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Taken, Civilization

  Alice Meynell (2015). “The Children”, p.25, Alice Meynell

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• Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

  Margaret Millar

  Acting, Good Marriage, Certain

  Margaret Millar (2016). “A Stranger in My Grave”, p.30, Soho Press

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• Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

  Theodor Adorno

  Revenge, Home, Independent

  "Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschadigten Leben (Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life)". Book by Theodor Adorno (1951) translated by E. Jephcott (§ 1), 1974.

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• I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain a human life forever: the deceit of hate on hearsay - hating an enemy one doesn't know.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Hate, War, Forever

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• All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

  Robert Henri

  Inward, Results, Faculty

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide very little clue. On the contrary, words are notoriously imprecise and open to every kind of interpretation, so you must search.

  Glenda Jackson

  Generations, Littles, Succeed

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• There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Doe, Pity, Theater

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Life And Love, Drama, Book

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “The Amazing Interlude/The Street of Seven Stars”, p.9, Essential Library

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• there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Laughter, Book, Doe

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Hard Work, Men, Work Harder

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.30, The Floating Press

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• your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Music, Sweat, Symphony

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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• Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise of the imagination analogous to the exercising of the physical body to no purpose other than ecstatic release.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Exercise, Imagination

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.39, Zondervan

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• That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

  Ilka Chase

  Children, Real, Long Ago

  Ilka Chase (1967). “Fresh from the Laundry”

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• A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

  Mary Astor

  Writing, Waiting, Musician

  Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”

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• [On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Writing, Color, Purple

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• Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Thinking, Government, Self

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.13, Crux Publishing Ltd

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