I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The characters' lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In the two or three or four months that it takes me to write a play, I find that the reality of… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he… — Edward Albee Copy Share
When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play. — Edward Albee Copy Share
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed.… — Edward Albee Copy Share
When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ...… — Edward Albee Copy Share
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine… — Edward Albee Copy Share
The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this… — Edward Albee Copy Share
Writing has got to be an act of discovery…I write to find out what I'm thinking about. — Edward Albee Copy Share
I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And… — Edward Albee Copy Share
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. — Edward Albee Copy Share
