Top 500 Play Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “It doesn’t really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it’s only a Northern Song.”

— George Harrison

402. “I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.”

— Dwayne Johnson

403. “We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time.”

— John Green

404. “I prefer other people to make judgments about the way I play and to characterize me, rather me describe myself.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

405. “You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.”

— Miles Davis

406. “Jehovah is the great Miracle Maker, the unrivaled Wonder worker. None can be likened unto Him, He is alone in wonderland, the Creator and Worker of true marvels, compared with which all other remarkable things are as child’s play.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

407. “I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that’s not what I’m interested in doing now. Even though I love it.”

— Pat Benatar

408. “Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets...”

— Jimmy Buffett

409. “By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.”

— Richard Branson

410. “The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.”

— Walter Benjamin

411. “In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.”

— Ovid

412. “Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.”

— Calvin Coolidge

413. “I tattooed my body so I couldn’t fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn’t get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.”

— Travis Barker

414. “The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”

— C.G. Jung

415. “The main characteristic of play – whether of child or adult – is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.”

— Jerome S. Bruner

416. “There’s something very cool as an actor when you have an opportunity to play somebody who’s real, whether they’re still alive or not, but who has lived a life.”

— Dwayne Johnson

417. “Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”

— Truman Capote

418. “And I know I’m about to play second fiddle to another woman, as I should. But my love for you will never change, Maxon.”

— Kiera Cass

419. “I would never play an extra year for money. I play the game because I love it. I just so happen to get paid. If I don’t feel I still enjoy the game, I can care less what a year is worth. I’m not going to play the game just because of money.”

— Michael Jordan

420. “Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

421. “You didn’t see me on television, you didn’t see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don’t need strong leaders.”

— Ella Baker

Also featured in: Strong Quotes

422. “You either have it or you don’t. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it’s in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.”

— Louis Armstrong

423. “My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.”

— Rodney Dangerfield

424. “I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.”

— Alexander Alekhine

425. “Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.”

— William Wordsworth

426. “You never win any games you don’t play.”

— Mark Cuban

427. “Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me “to enjoy and play as you know”, and that’s stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I’ve been given.”

— Lionel Messi

428. “You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don’t try to play theirs.”

— John Wooden

429. “Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

430. “Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?”

— Steven Wright

431. “The saddest day of my life was the day I didn’t get to play football anymore.”

— Brian Bosworth

432. “If you play it straight it’s funny – the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.”

— Tom Hiddleston

433. “So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.”

— Jack London

434. “Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.”

— James M. Barrie

435. “That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

436. “And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here.”

— Rumi

437. “I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I’ve been doing okay, haven’t I?”

— John Wayne

438. “When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you’re telling a story.”

— Joshua Bell

439. “Play is where life lives.”

— George A. Sheehan

440. “I love outdoor sports, like volleyball, and I play them whenever I can.”

— Gisele Bundchen

441. “Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.”

— George A. Sheehan

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442. “The majority of the filmmaking process is in pre-production. The more you’ve planned out the more freedom there is on set to find new stuff, to play around, find new jokes and let the actors kind of breathe – but it needs to come from a place where it’s completely structured.”

— Vin Diesel

443. “You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.”

— Jeanette Winterson

444. “The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.”

— Ansel Adams

445. “I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play...”

— Meher Baba

446. “It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.”

— Michel de Montaigne

447. “It’s hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.”

— Zinedine Zidane

448. “Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future’s sakes.”

— Robert Frost

449. “Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

450. “It’s easy for me to play bad guys because it’s a very linear acting. Bad guys aren’t empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you’re not friendly and you don’t have to do much with your face.”

— Henry Rollins