You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure. — John Guare Copy Share Image
It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday. — John Guare Hope Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee. — John Guare Bride Copy Share Image
Bob, it's the second night of violence in this normally quiet, yet generally swinging, Casino Capital of the East. — John Guare Casino Copy Share Image
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? — John Guare Amnesia Copy Share Image
Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that… — John Guare Book Copy Share Image
I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can… — John Guare Copy Share Image
The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry,… — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all… — John Guare Dublin Copy Share Image
I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it.… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what… — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones,… — John Guare Cities Copy Share Image
I've had students at Yale: my main task with them in drama school was not helping them with their writing but showing… — John Guare Drama Copy Share Image
Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can… — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter… — John Guare Character Copy Share Image
I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business… — John Guare Business Copy Share Image
There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams. — John Guare Copy Share Image
“the painter, Cezanne, would leave blank spaces on his canvas when he couldn’t account for the brush strokes, or the color”--- “How… — John Guare Artist Copy Share Image
I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing… — John Guare Alive Copy Share Image
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming… — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we… — John Guare Art Copy Share Image
