The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I moved to New York in 1980, and I met Beth Henley, who's a marvellous playwright and who I have a real… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is… — Brad Dourif Copy Share Image
My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention… — Mel Gussow Copy Share Image
I, too, am deeply concerned with an overarching idea that dramaturgs are now authors . . .. I am not taking the… — Dana Rosemary Scallon Copy Share Image
Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I started acting pretty much by accident. I was doing read-throughs for a playwright who I was assisting, and then an agency… — Guy Burnet 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
Little Christian Bale. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and I re-watched it not too long ago, and… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land,… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
I remember I once had a meeting with Sydney Pollack and the playwright Tom Stoppard, and they thought I was English. I… — Stephen Dorff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have… — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
![“I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell [Alvin McCraney] is my favorite playwright. I will do anything he asks. The characters were so clearly drawn and three dimensional. It was an easy thing to say yes to.” quote by Andre Holland](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f6c/andre-holland-10514_asks_i-wanted-to-work-with-barry-jenkins-i-am_1535686.jpg)
![“I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think he talked about wanting to write plays and keep appealing to people through that medium, rather than politics.” quote by Judy Woodruff](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8aa/judy-woodruff-4310_actor_i-think-he-vaclav-havel-probably-would-h_2627993.png)
![“[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have seen at least one of his plays.” quote by Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/92e/robert-dessaix-21751_audience_anton-chekhov-is-the-most-produced-playw_3211750.png)
