I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
“In the world of The Age of Innocence , a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the finest dinner… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
