You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Be ambitious. The great actor, director and playwright Ann Jellicoe commissioned writers like Howard Barker and David Edgar, and put on magnificent,… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre.… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on… — Lusia Strus Copy Share Image
When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to… — Anne Sebba Copy Share Image
Oftentimes the quality of the light tells the story: the time of day, the weather, whether sun is streaming through the window.… — Jules Fisher Copy Share Image
I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention… — Mel Gussow Copy Share Image
About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have… — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Tennessee Williams, one of my favorite playwrights, [lived] down there. You always heard about the Keys and how amazing they are and,… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“At first, this earth, a stage so gloomed with woe You all but sicken at the shifting scenes And yet be patient.… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I love what I do, and I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it, and… — Patti LuPone 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
I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to… — Tracie Thoms Copy Share Image
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
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