I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In 'Angels in America,' I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation. — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable in the air. And if you're really in love with flight, you're in love to a certain extent with being outside… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating,… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it,… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have. — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
