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
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 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
I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone… — Jennifer Tipton Copy Share Image
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She… — Marsha Norman 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 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
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically,… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also… — Tony Kushner 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
The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Act I, Scene 1 GARRY: …My worst defect is that I am apt to worry too much about what people think of… — Noël Coward Copy Share Image
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 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
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
Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see… — Tony Kushner 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
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems… — Robert Penn Warren 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
[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience… — Robert Dessaix 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
I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think… — Judy Woodruff 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
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an… — John Lahr 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
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
You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what's onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a… — John Guare 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
If you are in an Edward Albee play, you say Edward Albee is the greatest playwright of all time... If you're in… — Bill Pullman 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
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
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
An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
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