Playwright Quotes · Page 5

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

— John Guare

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

— Ayn Rand

I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do…

— Sam Shepard

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

— Lusia Strus

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

— Laura Linney

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother…

— Phylicia Rashad

“Sometimes the world feels so heavy that I crave the limelight - where the curtain rises, and the darkness becomes art.”

— Laura Chouette

For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be…

— Wole Soyinka

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

What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis…

— Tawfiq al-Hakim

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

— Taylor Negron

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

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

— Baron Vaughn

Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything…

— Alistair Beaton

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

— Tom Hardy

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

The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future…

— Al Gore

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

— Annie Baker

Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any…

— Lewis Mumford

“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without…

— Voltaire

I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over.…

— Edward Albee

I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music…

— Stephen Fry

During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring…

— Akira Kurosawa

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

— Atom Egoyan

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a…

— Lewis Black

Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page…

— Abi Morgan

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

— William Goldman

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a…

— Beau Willimon

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

— Maximilian Schell

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

— Tony Kushner

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that…

— Jean Kerr

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

— John Guare

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

— John Cameron Mitchell

I was brought up by a single mother. She was learning to be a playwright so I had an incredible childhood. She…

— Lucy Beaumont

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

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

— Wilson Mizner

I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That…

— Bertolt Brecht