Playing quotes

“- Tony Lip: I dunno. Personally I think if you stuck to the classic stuff it would've been a big mistake.
- Dr. Donald Shirley: A mistake? Performing the music I trained my entire life to play?
- Tony Lip: Trained? What are you, a seal? People love what you do! Anyone can sound like Beethoven or Joe Pan or them other guys you said. But your...” (continue)(continue reading)
Viggo Mortensen - Tony Lip
Mahershala Ali - Dr. Donald Shirley

“That's why we ride a piece of wood, like, what that does to somebody's spirit.”

Olan Prenatt - Fuckshit

“My mom will have an aneurysm, okay, if she finds out we're playing down here, I'm serious.”
Jack Dylan Grazer - Eddie Kaspbrak

“No matter how old you are, if a little kidhands you a toy phone... you answer it.”
Dave Chappelle

“It looks like an insane asylum opened up and all the inmates were allowed to play.”

Jon Hamm - JB

“- Fred: You know you could give up the game, and that would be all right with me. In fact, I want you to give it up.
- Josh: But I can't.
- Fred: Why not?
- Josh: Because I have to play. I have to.”
Joe Mantegna - Fred Waitzkin
Max Pomeranc - Josh Waitzkin

“- Jack Bolton: You're the playmaker... not a singer... right?
- Troy Bolton: Did you ever think that maybe I could be both?”
Bart Johnson - Coach Jack Bolton
Zac Efron - Troy Bolton

“Thirty-two teams, seven rounds, 224 young men who, today, are about to become players in the National Football League. A day where lives are changed, fates are decided, dynasties are born, and the clock is always ticking. Of course, I'm talking about... Draft Day.”
Chris Berman - Himself

“I've been doing sillyvoices since I was a child.”
Hank Azaria

“When I was a kid my brother and I used to pretend we were heroes with swords. We were the only ones who could save the day. but perhaps we set the bar a little bit high. Maybe we were just regular people, the ones who get saved.”
Zach Braff - Aidan Bloom

“- Hunk Houghton: You will never make a guitar player. You got not rhythm in your bones!
- Vince Everett: Well, I never heard of anybody payin' money to hear a guitar player.”
Mickey Shaughnessy - Hunk Houghton
Elvis Presley - Vince Everett

“Who cares about winning? Let's get drunk!”
Jason Bateman - Max

“The game is rigged, and it does not reward people who play by the rules.”
Jennifer Lopez - Ramona

“- Tony Le Domas: Well, the rules are simple. You can hide anywhere. We then try to find you.
- Grace: So there’s no way for me to win, right?
- Tony Le Domas: You can stay hidden until dawn.”
Henry Czerny - Tony Le Domas
Samara Weaving - Grace

“- Don Birnam: What are they playing?
- Helen St. James: Brahms second symphony, something by Beethoven, something by Handel and not one note of Grieg.”
Ray Milland - Don Birnam
Jane Wyman - Helen St. James

“There should be a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Musical Instruments.”

Trevor Howard - Dr. Alec Harvey

“I understand why you don't speak, why you don't move, why you've created a part for yourself out of apathy. I understand. I admire. You should go on with this part until it is played out, until it loses interest for you. Then you can leave it, just as you've left your other parts one by one.”

Margaretha Krook - The Doctor

“- Ruth Adams: Gunplay? Guns is a plaything to you?
- Jules Gaspard d'Estaing: Play and work, Mrs. Adams. Work and play.”
Janice Rule - Ruth Adams
Yul Brynner - Jules Gaspard d'Estaing

“- Elderly Woman: We just want to know who's playing Laurel and Hardy, please.
- Glasgow Empire Manager: They're playing themselves.
- Elderly Woman: Who are?
- Glasgow Empire Manager: Laurel and Hardy. Here in person, the poster says, they're here in person.”
Veronica Clifford - Elderly Woman - Glasgow
Sanjeev Kohli - Glasgow Empire Manager

- One-Round: Are we supposed to make noises with these things? What kind o' noises?
- Louis: Who is she?
- Professor Marcus: Not "noises", One-Round, music!

Danny Green - One-Round (a.k.a. 'Mr. Lawson')
Herbert Lom - Louis (a.k.a. 'Mr. Harvey')
Alec Guinness - Professor Marcus

“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”
Eva Gabor

“He's the nicest guy though, ask anyone, but the thing is, he's almost 40, looks like he's 30, thinks like he's 20, and acts like he's 10. He's fun to play board games with.”
Hillary Wolf - Laura Chartoff

“- Katherine Thorn: What's the matter, those other kids didn't want to play with you?
- Damien: They're afraid.”
Julia Stiles - Katherine Thorn
Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick - Damien

“- Jarvis Edison: How many timeouts do we have left?
- Paul Blake: Three.
- Jarvis Edison: Can we take 'em all now?”
Jason Bateman - Jarvis Edison
Scott Bakula - Paul Blake

“You gotta have presence on the court. Presence like a cheetah rather than a chimp. Sure, they both got it, but Chimpy gotta jump his nuts around to get it. The shy cheetah moves with total nonchalance, stickin' it to them in his sexy, slow strut. Me? I play like a cheetah.”

Leonardo DiCaprio - Jim Carroll