Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing. — John Guare Copy Share Image
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all… — John Guare Copy Share Image
However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet. — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed. — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York. — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet. — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are… — John Guare Risk Copy Share Image
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us… — John Guare Alive Copy Share Image
The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, "I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic!" But how few… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know… — John Guare Book Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play… — John Guare Copy Share Image
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what… — John Guare Artist Copy Share Image
What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You… — John Guare Copy Share Image
The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that… — John Guare Imagination Copy Share Image
I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town… — John Guare Backstage Copy Share Image
You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what's onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How… — John Guare Art Copy Share Image
Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
“But if I had to choose between where I live and you, I'd rip up everything I own because the only landscape… — John Guare Human body Copy Share Image
New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the… — John Guare Adventure Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and… — John Guare Bounds Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one. — John Guare Copy Share Image
![“What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean…” quote by John Guare](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/845/john-guare-10082_believe_what-i-hate-about-kitchen-sink-dramas-is_1436898.jpg)
