I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
Little Christian Bale. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and I re-watched it not too long ago, and… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“He can see what move I'm planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who… — Sangu Mandanna Copy Share Image
I started acting pretty much by accident. I was doing read-throughs for a playwright who I was assisting, and then an agency… — Guy Burnet Copy Share Image
If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is… — Brad Dourif Copy Share Image
I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
I've had a long association with the theater over the years but I had never produced a play and it was something… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
“{ Stockton, a playwright who performed plays about Robert Ingersoll , gives the four moments in Ingersoll 's life that shaped him,… — Richard F. Stockton Copy Share Image
I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually… — Alex Raymond Copy Share Image
I love the students - they are remarkable, inspiring people. I would miss teaching if I stopped doing it. The kind of… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I moved to New York in 1980, and I met Beth Henley, who's a marvellous playwright and who I have a real… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I’ve spent too many years explaining who and what I am repeatedly, so as of this moment I officially secede from both… — Drew Hayden Taylor Copy Share Image
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of… — John Logan Copy Share Image
I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is -… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms… — Anthony Zerbe Copy Share Image
It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright… — George M. Cohan Copy Share Image
I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who… — Alfred Lunt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
![“I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell [Alvin McCraney] is my favorite playwright. I will do anything he asks. The characters were so clearly drawn and three dimensional. It was an easy thing to say yes to.” quote by Andre Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f6c/andre-holland-10514_asks_i-wanted-to-work-with-barry-jenkins-i-am_1535686.jpg)
