A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Alan Ayckbourn the day I met him and, starting with 'The Norman Conquests,' went on to do… — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
I grew up going to the theater. That was one of the nice things my mom did was she took us to… — David Small Copy Share Image
My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in naturally, and… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but… — Katherine Parkinson Copy Share Image
I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became… — Om Puri Copy Share Image
I have not chosen to create a linear story, but a series of different narratives: in the end there are five plays… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again.… — Taran Killam Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed by those people who get up at 5 and write till 8 and then eat a peach and walk… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer;… — Mili Avital Copy Share Image
“Hamlet' dwarfs 'Hamilton' - it dwarfs pretty much everything - but there's a revealing similarity between them. Shakespeare's longest play leaves its… — Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter Copy Share Image
The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but… — T. R. Knight Copy Share Image
I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and… — Claire Coffee Copy Share Image
And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks… — Kari Matchett Copy Share Image
I started playing in '98, but I got hooked by playing celebrity golf tournaments. Tiger had a lot to do with it… — Stuart Scott Copy Share Image
“It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
What's great about the play 'Pygmalion' is that it's sort of two plays. It's the one simple trajectory of girl bettering herself.… — Harry Hadden-Paton Copy Share Image
I wonder if games are maybe a terminus for ideas. Things can be books or movies or operas or plays, but once… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was… — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had… — Quinn Shephard Copy Share Image
I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You… — James Callis Copy Share Image
A lot of what I've had produced are plays, and I just don't want to do that. It's different than a movie,… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Bebo has an opportunity to prove its products and services. Bebo plays in a very competitive space; it has big market share… — Tim Armstrong Copy Share Image
Like I always say, it's not how many great plays you make; it's how few bad ones you make. I know fans,… — Jimmy Johnson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a… — Ken Ludwig Copy Share Image
I am really fortunate to have parents who supported my plan to become an actress when I was a little kid. And… — Keiko Agena Copy Share Image
'Deep Red' (1975) is my favorite movie. The character David Hemmings plays is very much based on my own personality. It was… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
