Top 500 Play Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.”

— Rob Bell

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452. “It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

453. “But I don’t want to be compared to anyone like to impose my own style of play and do the best for myself and for the club here.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

454. “It’s great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.”

— Chris Cornell

455. “The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.”

— Voltaire

456. “Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

457. “If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

458. “You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.”

— Denis Waitley

459. “Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.”

— John Steinbeck

460. “Life is a movie, let love play its role.”

— Lil Wayne

461. “You know, I don’t only play for the record books.”

— Roger Federer

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462. “My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.”

— Tom Stoppard

463. “Better to mock the game than to play and lose.”

— George R.R. Martin

464. “Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

465. “Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.”

— Paula Abdul

466. “I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.”

— Steven Wright

467. “If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting – both for us and for her.”

— E. M. Forster

468. “You see how it is, my dear friends. There’s no pleasing everyone. It’s hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.”

— Sholem Aleichem

469. “Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship.”

— Gregory Bateson

470. “The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.”

— William Shakespeare

471. “No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

472. “Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.”

— Mark Twain

473. “I simply do not distinguish between work and play.”

— Mary Oliver

474. “Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

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475. “I practice every day, I warm up before I play.”

— Travis Barker

476. “Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.”

— Richard Baxter

477. “Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.”

— Andre Agassi

478. “I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.”

— Meher Baba

479. “You cannot play for safety and make art.”

— Lucille Clifton

480. “I have always identified with Joan Didion’s depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading ‘Play It As It Lays,’ ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’ and ‘The White Album.’”

— Henry Rollins

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481. “Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.”

— Melody Beattie

482. “On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That’s why he’s the champion right now.”

— Bjorn Borg

483. “The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.”

— Pablo Casals

484. “I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.”

— Harper Lee

485. “We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!”

— Charles Dickens

486. “You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn’t play that way. It’s about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.”

— Gael Garcia Bernal

487. “Beating heroin is child’s play compared to beating your childhood.”

— Stephen King

488. “Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected.”

— Thomas Sowell

489. “If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.”

— Pablo Casals

490. “I keep reading that I’m cold. But I’m not, I’m shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal – so I’m cold on one side and fiery on the other.”

— Emmanuelle Beart

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491. “That’s all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.”

— Syd Barrett

492. “In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango.”

— Tori Amos

493. “The lights must never go out, The music must always play.”

— W.H. Auden

494. “When the first record came out, I’d go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they’d tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren’t sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.”

— Pat Benatar

495. “He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.”

— David Bowie

496. “To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.”

— Fernando Pessoa

497. “Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

498. “You’re just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they’re already in us. That’s why we pretend them in the first place.”

— Gayle Forman

499. “So I wonder this, as life billows smoke inside my head This little game where nothing is sure Why would you play by the rules? Who did? You did. You...”

— Dave Matthews

500. “Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.”

— Jimi Hendrix