When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

- Andre Holland

I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.

- Brendan Coyle

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

- Bjorn Borg

I am just a guy who plays drums.

- Bill Kreutzmann

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

- Beth Henley

My fault now is making my plays too short.

- Beth Henley

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

- Billy Crystal

I like musicals that look more like plays.

- Alex Timbers

I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.

- Alison McGhee

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

- Annie Baker

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

- Al Pacino

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

- Andre Holland

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

- Athol Fugard

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

- Anna Deavere Smith

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

- Alan Bennett

I don't mind watching plays once in a while, but as long as I don't have to be in them.

- Alan Arkin

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

- Adam Driver

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

- Ace Frehley

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.

- Abe Lemons

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

- Alan Alda