“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.” — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me? — Mae West Copy Share Image
... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius. — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
I love the '50s and grew up loving works from that time period and from those great playwrights. — Sebastian Stan Copy Share Image
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists. — Yasmina Reza Copy Share Image
“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.” — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I seem to belong to a boom moment of playwrights, and I'm always curious about how we all got here and what… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
“We are playwrights in that we spontaneously compose and direct dialogue, acting out various roles of a nurturer, an authority, or a… — Jeffrey A. Kottler Copy Share Image
The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Playwrights are discovering you can bypass the shorthand of cinema and really explore a situation, ramp up the pressure, over several hours… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
My generation of playwrights have grown up writing for studio theatres, and so the task of writing for more than ten or… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who… — Sam Claflin Copy Share Image
I'm doing a play at Trafalgar Studios with The Jamie Lloyd Company - 'The Maids' by Jean Genet with Uzo Aduba and… — Zawe Ashton 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
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples.… — Daniel J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and… — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their… — Harriet Walter Copy Share Image
It is such a joy to join a legacy of amazing female playwrights who have managed to break through the glass ceiling… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Beckett was the most thorough of playwrights. He tells you what to do and if you've any humility at all, you'll take… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
