Christopher Durang

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

— Christopher Durang

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

— Christopher Durang

Laughter can bring a new perspective.

— Christopher Durang

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

— Christopher Durang

My parents didn't really know one another.

— Christopher Durang

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

— Christopher Durang

I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.

— Christopher Durang

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

— Christopher Durang

“No, I was just thinking about Chernobyl. That's like a scream from the universe warning us, but we're not paying any attention.”

— Christopher Durang

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

— Christopher Durang

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

— Christopher Durang

So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot.…

— Christopher Durang

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I…

— Christopher Durang

My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you…

— Christopher Durang

“Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting…

— Christopher Durang

Unless you go through all the genuine angers you feel, both justified and unjustified, the feelings of love that you have will…

— Christopher Durang

I write intuitively, and with most of my plays, I don't know what is always going to happen. This means I can…

— Christopher Durang

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an…

— Christopher Durang

I thought if I can do something more playful and light like my play BEYOND THERAPY, it might be a money maker.…

— Christopher Durang

Here is the key to existence. Are you listening? Here is the key to existence; when I tell you this you will…

— Christopher Durang

I love actors. I enjoy their company, and I get excited each and every time they bring a character I've written to…

— Christopher Durang

The first several scenes are about sexual addiction. They're not specifically political at all. . . . I didn't sit down and…

— Christopher Durang

In my 20s, I was more cynical/despairing (even though I still wrote comically), but I often sent audiences home with rather dark…

— Christopher Durang

As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched"…

— Christopher Durang

“[The Greeks] went to the open-air theatre expecting the drama they saw to evoke terror and pity. Nowadays we have enough terror…

— Christopher Durang

It is a sin to follow your horoscope because only God knows the future and He won't tell us. Also, we can…

— Christopher Durang

It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to…

— Christopher Durang