Playwright Quotes · Page 2

Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that…

— Robert Duvall

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and…

— William Goldman

Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist…

— Sarah Jones

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

— Robert Anton Wilson

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as…

— Beth Henley

If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about…

— Edward Albee

[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology,…

— Baron Vaughn

The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in…

— Goswami Kriyananda

There's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours -…

— Edward Albee

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.

— Yasmina Reza

I think I have a certain kind of style. I think at the same time, I'm aware that there's certain things that…

— Nilo Cruz

Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every…

— Nilo Cruz

There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.

— Keegan-Michael Key

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So…

— Skylar Astin

If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make…

— Tony Kushner

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four'…

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner…

— Jenny Hval

I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in…

— John Patrick Shanley

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

— Edward Albee

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

— Eric Bentley

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told…

— Liev Schreiber

One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do…

— Tony Kushner

I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to…

— Kirsten Vangsness

If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at…

— Mark Twain