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"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, Swedish Actor

Play, School, Snow, Spring

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"When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk."

Richard Burton, Welsh Actor

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"Play so that you may be serious."

Anacharsis, Scythian Philosopher

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"The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met."

Chet Baker, American Musician

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"I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it."

Richard Manuel, Canadian Musician

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"The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game."

Mary Hart, American Entertainer

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"To play a bag woman is brave for any woman."

Daphne Zuniga, American Actress

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"You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song."

Benmont Tench, American Musician

Play, Right, Song, Want

"I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV."

Ana Gasteyer, American Comedian

"Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles."

Juliette Lewis, American Actress

"So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'"

Ornette Coleman, American Musician

"Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly."

Steve Swallow, American Musician

"And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go."

Sunny Murray, American Musician

"I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself."

Dane Cook, American Comedian

"I'll ask you if you can play some speaking roles."

Donald Wolfit, English Actor

"It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself."

Dan Castellaneta, American Actor

Play, Right, Waiting

"We never really wanted to play in California."

Santiago Durango, American Musician

"My little cousin tells me I look like Magneto so I guess that's who I should probably play."

Robert Pattinson, English Actor

"Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you."

Charlie Parker, American Musician

"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."

August Wilson, American Playwright

"Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney."

Sharon Gless, American Actress

"I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."

Dick Dale, American Musician

"I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me."

Bill Kreutzmann, American Musician

"When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible."

Ritchie Blackmore, English Musician

"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

"I don't get called very often to play innocents."

Christopher Meloni, American Actor

"We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal."

Benny Green, British Musician

"I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard."

Lee Konitz, American Musician

"So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in."

Kristin Davis, American Actress

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

Jerry Garcia, American Musician

Play, Pretty, Want

"You don't really know a song until you play it live."

Robert Smith, English Musician

"Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well."

David Ives, American Playwright

"If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice."

Stan Getz, American Musician

"If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric."

Adam Jones, American Musician

"I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record."

Sam Rivers, American Musician

"I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him."

Jay McShann, American Musician

"I never saw the play, although I heard it was good."

Joseph Force Crater, American Judge

"I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop."

Coolio, American Musician

"We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands."

Jay McShann, American Musician

"I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement."

Fred Allen, American Comedian

"He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total."

Paul Darrow, British Actor

"Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon."

Allan Sherman, American Musician

Play, Word, World

"I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore."

Dominic Chianese, American Actor

"I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park."

Paul Kantner, American Musician

"All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo."

Robert Vaughn, American Actor

"If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record."

Duncan Sheik, American Musician

"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."

Gilbert White, English Scientist

"Yes I still enjoy playing him. He's the best person to play isn't he?"

Tom Felton, English Actor

"It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture."

Herbert Lom, Czechoslovakian Actor

"No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it."

Jim Fiebig, American Author

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