Playwright Quotes · Page 7

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

— Brendan Behan

I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

— John Guare

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

— Phyllis McGinley

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

— Francis Ford Coppola

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't…

— Adam Rapp

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

“In the world stage of actors, I'd rather prefer to be the playwright”

— Amit Padhy

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

— Sarah Bernhardt

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

— Kenneth Tynan

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be…

— Noel Coward

There was a play that was written by who I think is America's greatest playwright, and he wrote a small part in…

— Scott Glenn

The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's…

— Laurence Sterne

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together…

— John Guare

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this…

— Anonymous

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like…

— Tom Hardy

Theatre is an actor's medium though behind the stage there is a playwright, director and perhaps in some, a music composer too,…

— Himani Shivpuri

Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer ---- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the…

— Taylor Negron

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor,…

— Joseph Weizenbaum

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.…

— Terrence McNally

Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get…

— Tracy Letts

I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid,…

— Annie Baker

I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an…

— Colin Callender

A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or…

— Edward Albee

I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing…

— Kenneth Lonergan

I'm a playwright by trade, and in theater, writers have complete control over everything. Nobody can change a word without your permission.…

— David Lindsay-Abaire

At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after…

— Lanford Wilson

Neil [Simon] was considered our greatest [living playwright] at the time [of their marriage]. Maybe he still is; I don't know. But…

— Marsha Mason

“Act I, Scene 1 GARRY: …My worst defect is that I am apt to worry too much about what people think of…

— Noël Coward

Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit…

— Amy Holden Jones

I often envy a filmmaker or a playwright or an author where people are like, "Yeah, I sat down every night and…

— Dan Deacon

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

— Jose Saramago

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

— Sam Shepard

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

— Sam Shepard

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

— Bob Dylan

I never wanted to be a playwright.

— Zoe Kazan

If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.

— Mae West

The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician.

— Jazmine Sullivan

if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

— Gertrude Atherton