My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.
If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.
Life is like a plate of chillies, what you do today might just burn your ass tomorrow!
Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.
For holidays, I like doing special cheery touches around the table, like color-coordinating the plates and napkins to fit the theme.
You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.
M. Gustave: May I offer any of you inmates a plate of mush?
The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.
I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
I am a better person when I have less on my plate.
Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.
My manager has season tix to the Dodgers, four seats to 40 games, and they're right behind the plate, I mean, they're amazing, food and waiter service, which is insane.
I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?
Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.
Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, "Would you like to see my plate?
Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.
Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.
Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.
James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona.
