Actor Quotes by Stephen Karam

I've always viewed 'Sons of the Prophet' as the first part of a larger trilogy - not three plays dependent on each other but…

— Stephen Karam

Until I have a family or a mortgage, I'm trying to keep my lifestyle simple and my apartment affordable so that I can continue…

— Stephen Karam

I worry that I will lose control over the projects I get to work on.

— Stephen Karam

I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.

— Stephen Karam

Under Todd Haimes' leadership, Roundabout created a black-box theater whose sole mission was to house premieres by writers who are just starting out and…

— Stephen Karam

I didn't quite fit in in any particular, specific way. I was a gay teenager who was into drama.

— Stephen Karam

I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have…

— Stephen Karam

I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to people of…

— Stephen Karam

To be totally honest, I thought I would have a Broadway debut in the distant, distant future, maybe in my 60s or 70s when…

— Stephen Karam

Coming home for me isn't, like, one family dinner. It's about am I gonna see 50 relatives, or am I gonna see 85?

— Stephen Karam

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

— Stephen Karam

Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.

— Stephen Karam

I don't come from a family of artists.

— Stephen Karam

Suddenly you're at church and you hear someone pray, "For gays and lesbians, that they might realize their [sins]…" That's happening less and less…

— Stephen Karam

Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my…

— Stephen Karam