When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me? — Mae West Copy Share Image
A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists. — Yasmina Reza Copy Share Image
“We are playwrights in that we spontaneously compose and direct dialogue, acting out various roles of a nurturer, an authority, or a… — Jeffrey A. Kottler Copy Share Image
I seem to belong to a boom moment of playwrights, and I'm always curious about how we all got here and what… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
Beckett was the most thorough of playwrights. He tells you what to do and if you've any humility at all, you'll take… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights. — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
It is such a joy to join a legacy of amazing female playwrights who have managed to break through the glass ceiling… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their… — Harriet Walter Copy Share Image
Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience. — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
My generation of playwrights have grown up writing for studio theatres, and so the task of writing for more than ten or… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see… — Lucy Alibar 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
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
Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples.… — Daniel J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They… — Terrence McNally 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
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,'… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.” — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius. — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.” — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
I love the '50s and grew up loving works from that time period and from those great playwrights. — Sebastian Stan Copy Share Image
The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
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