Playwright Quotes · Page 6

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

— Tony Kushner

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

— Maximilian Schell

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page…

— Abi Morgan

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a…

— Lewis Black

I was brought up by a single mother. She was learning to be a playwright so I had an incredible childhood. She…

— Lucy Beaumont

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

— John Guare

I remember I once had a meeting with Sydney Pollack and the playwright Tom Stoppard, and they thought I was English. I…

— Stephen Dorff

In terms of collaboration, working on a new piece is always thrilling, as I'm sure most people would say, because the playwright…

— Gideon Glick

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four'…

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it…

— Orson Scott Card

With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the…

— Martin McDonagh

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to…

— Robert Anderson

“He can see what move I'm planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who…

— Sangu Mandanna

When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also…

— Tony Kushner

Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love…

— John Patrick Shanley

I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is…

— Kenneth Tynan

I've had a long association with the theater over the years but I had never produced a play and it was something…

— Colin Callender

The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily…

— Laurence Sterne

“Act I, Scene 1 GARRY: …My worst defect is that I am apt to worry too much about what people think of…

— Noël Coward

If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make…

— Tony Kushner

“{ Stockton, a playwright who performed plays about Robert Ingersoll , gives the four moments in Ingersoll 's life that shaped him,…

— Richard F. Stockton

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that…

— Jean Kerr

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

— John Cameron Mitchell

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

— Wilson Mizner

I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That…

— Bertolt Brecht

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told…

— Liev Schreiber

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as…

— Beth Henley

I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.

— George M. Cohan

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

— Cherry Jones

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

— Sarah Jessica Parker

I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do…

— Sam Shepard

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

— Lusia Strus

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

— Laura Linney

“Sometimes the world feels so heavy that I crave the limelight - where the curtain rises, and the darkness becomes art.”

— Laura Chouette

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

— Atom Egoyan

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother…

— Phylicia Rashad