When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented. — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home,… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch. — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
“i don't know what your situation is but i wanted you to know what mine is not just to explain some rude behavior, but… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed. — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety,… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank you for my life. — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it. — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands.… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough. — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door. — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Back when you were doing plays like 'The Miracle Worker,' you had 20, 25 people in the cast. When you go to make the… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
