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"I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them."
"I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator."
"I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself."
"I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan."
"They called and said, "I know we're not supposed to even tell you, but you've been offered to play the President." And I said, "OK. Say yes." And they were like, "Do you want to read it maybe?" And I was like, "No, I just want to be the president.""
"Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play."
"That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics."
"Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays."
"Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part."
"The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!"
"Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?"
"I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet."
"The plays raise issues that are ignored in other forums."
"The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed."
"I spoil a lot of people with my play."
"I've always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part. Someone once came up to Spencer Tracy and asked, "Aren't you tired of always playing Tracy?" Tracy replied, "What am I supposed to do, play Bogart?" You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks."
"I might play in shorts, but I wear the pants."
"I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out."
"I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays."
"I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I just wanted to play because it gets you girls."
