Play Dead may refer to:
- 'Playing dead', a natural state of paralysis that some animals enter when threatened, see Apparent death
- Play Dead (band), an English gothic rock group
- "Play Dead" (song), by Björk
- Play Dead (album), by Astrid
- Play Dead (zombie rock album) by Amanda Richards
- Play Dead (novel), by Harlan Coben
- Play Dead (1981 film), a 1981 horror film
- Play Dead (2009 film), a 2009 black comedy film
- Play Dead (show), a 2010 Off Broadway entertainment directed by Teller
- "Playing Dead" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Criminal Intent
- Playdead, video game development company
Famous quotes containing the words play and/or dead:
“By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)
“The utmost familiarity with dead streams, or with the ocean, would not prepare a man for this peculiar navigation; and the most skillful boatman anywhere else would here be obliged to take out his boat and carry round a hundred times, still with great risk, as well as delay, where the practiced batteau-man poles up with comparative ease and safety.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)