Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theatre. I was offered the lead… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope. — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as… — Lucy Punch Copy Share Image
At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
I'd love to have written a film and it to be regarded as good. I'd just like to be doing things that… — James Corden Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom,… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
When you're an adult, when times are good, entire years go by in what feels like the space of one season. But… — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
I loved plays, I loved films, but I had no desire to act until I had just put out my album 'Like… — Common Copy Share Image
Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying… — Dustin Lynch Copy Share Image
To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity. If I'd been in… — Millie Bobby Brown Copy Share Image
I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur,… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Everything feels like you're in slow motion and everything you do seems like it's about two or three plays of what everybody… — Tony Parker Copy Share Image
Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays;… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays. — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap. — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not. — Phil Lesh Copy Share Image
The Will Smith that you see in movies is exactly the same as Will Smith in real life. Except for when he… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts,… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I got into seventh grade, I think, that I realized that doing plays might be a fun thing, and… — Chris Parnell Copy Share Image
I'm always visualizing plays before they happen, and I'm just trying to analyze and assess what's going on. — Ronald Acuna Jr Copy Share Image
I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was very close to my father. At the age of ten I wanted to do plays, and my father was very… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
You have guys that are all over the field that are making a lot of plays, you'll win a lot of games… — Aaron Donald Copy Share Image
I love stage work. The thing about plays is that they're perfectible. With film, you shoot that take and maybe another. During… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
