Playing quotes

“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

“A game for those who seek to find
A way to leave their world behind.”
Alex Wolff - Young Spencer

“- Sonny Weaver Jr.: Looks like Tarzan, plays like Jane.
- Coach Penn: Your opinion. He plays in my system.
- Sonny Weaver Jr.: He doesn't block!
- Coach Penn: I don't need him to block, I need him to run! Which he does, like a bat out of hell. Which takes the pressure off of my offense. Okay? I got fifty-two Tarzans in that locker room; I could...” (continue)(continue reading)

Kevin Costner - Sonny Weaver Jr.
Denis Colin Leary - Coach Penn

“- Sir Edmund Burton: Stop that!
- Cogman: I was trying to make the moment more epic.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Sir Edmund Burton
Jim Carter - Cogman

“- Spats Baxter: Can you play the piano?
- Dick Cummings: Like a mink.”

George C. Scott - Spats Baxter
Barry Bostwick - Dick Cummings

- Jackie Robinson: You want a player who doesn't have the guts to fight back?
- Branch Rickey: No. I want a player who's got the guts not to fight back. People aren't gonna like this. They're gonna do anything to get you to react. Echo a curse with a curse and, uh, they'll hear only yours. Follow a blow with a blow and they'll say, "The Negro... (continue)(continue reading)
Chadwick Boseman - Jackie Robinson
Harrison Ford - Branch Rickey

“It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.”
Nastassja Kinski

“- Manny: He fakes left, he fakes right...
- Peaches: He fakes knowing how to play!”

Ray Romano - Manny
Keke Palmer - Peaches

“- Uncle Tai: You play Mah-jongg?
- Liu Jian: A little.
- Uncle Tai: I love Mah-jongg. Keeps the mind sharp. It's hard to find good players around here. That's why I play by myself. This way, I always win.”
Burt Kwouk - Uncle Tai
Jet Li - Liu Jian

“This competition is very important to me. It's not a play to play thing. It's a play to win thing.”
Mary-Kate Olsen - Chloe Lawrence

“- The Priest: God is love, and God is everywhere.
- Jackie Kennedy: Was he in the bullet that killed Jack?
- The Priest: Absolutely.
- Jackie Kennedy: Is he inside me now?
- The Priest: Yes, of course. Of course he is.
- Jackie Kennedy: Well, that's a funny game he plays, hiding all the time.”
Sir John Hurt - The Priest
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“- Ted Pikul: We're both stumbling around together in this unformed world, whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly indecipherable or even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don't understand.
- Allegra Geller: That sounds like my game, all right.
- Ted Pikul: That sounds like a game that's...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jude Law - Ted Pikul
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Allegra Geller

“I can tell when a man wants to work. I can also tell when a man wants to play.”
Mary Stavin - Tanya

“- Cecil Parkes: Rachmaninov? Are you sure?
- David Helfgott - Adolescent: Kind of. I'm not really sure about anything.
- Cecil Parkes: The Rach 3. It's monumental.
- David Helfgott - Adolescent: It's a mountain. The hardest piece you could everest play.”
Sir John Gielgud - Cecil Parkes
Noah Taylor - David Helfgott - Adolescent

- Stephen Glass: If I were to throw a party where all we did was play "Monopoly", would you guys come?
- Caitlin Avey: Could I be the little shoe?
Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass
Chloë Sevigny - Caitlin Avey

Look, if you want to go play "guess your disease", or "translate your tribal tattoo", go knock yourself out.
Vince Vaughn - Dave

“Daddy's gonna play with his fire hose. ...That didn't sound right.”
Ellen Lee DeGeneres - Janet Hall

“- Haley: What's his problem?
- Corey Woods: Jimmy's just shy.
- Haley: Shy a few bricks I'd say.
- Corey Woods: No he's okay. He just kicked ass on Double Dragon.”
Jenny Lewis - Haley
Fred Savage - Corey Woods

“She should've stayed in the kitchen where she belongs! A woman shouldn't be allowed in these games! It's not a game; it's life!”

Wallace Merck - Burt

“I don't wanna put any undue pressure on you guys, but Coach Gennero's last words were, win or I'll die.”

Robert Loggia - Coach Wally Rig

“- Warthog: This is a lovely golf course, I'm tempted to join the club myself.
- Bletch: No chance of that I'm afraid, Cedric.
- Warthog: You mean they discriminate against Scots?
- Bletch: No, they just don't want assholes in the clubhouse.”
Peter Vere-Jones - Bletch

“I'd love to make a biographical movie of Chopin. That would be a wonderful excuse to play piano again.”
Eduardo Noriega

“If anyone would have been payingserious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.”
Bob Balaban

“- Ernie: Are you really Scottish?
- Matt Stifler: Fuck no! My mom made me learn an instrument; that's the most annoying one I could think of.”

Jason Earles - Ernie
Tad Hilgenbrink - Matt Stifler

“We've gotta play to your strengths. And thinkin ain't one of them.”

Queen Latifah - Isabelle 'Belle' Williams