By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate -… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The characters' lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes,… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I've seen an awful lot of plays that I'd read before they were put into production and been shocked by what's happened… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ...… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
