I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate -… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions,… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place… — 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
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong… — 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
There's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours -… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so… — 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
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
I think I sit down to the typewriter when it's time to sit down to the typewriter. That isn't to suggest that… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I don't set out to write a play a year. Sometimes I've written two plays a year. There was a period of… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In rehearsals I get so completely wrapped up with the reality that's occurring on stage that by the time the play has… — 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
I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive.… — 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
Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can… — 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
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