It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. — 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
Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind… — 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
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike… — 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
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
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
