Some Quotes by John Patrick Shanley

Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.

— John Patrick Shanley

I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera.

— John Patrick Shanley

“i don't know what your situation is but i wanted you to know what mine is not just to explain some rude behavior, but…

— John Patrick Shanley

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

— John Patrick Shanley

It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety,…

— John Patrick Shanley

dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank you for my life.

— John Patrick Shanley

I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it.

— John Patrick Shanley

I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands.…

— John Patrick Shanley

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough.

— John Patrick Shanley

People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in…

— John Patrick Shanley

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

— John Patrick Shanley

Back when you were doing plays like 'The Miracle Worker,' you had 20, 25 people in the cast. When you go to make the…

— John Patrick Shanley

Where the terror is, you must go.

— John Patrick Shanley

'The Miracle Worker' is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, and athletic.

— John Patrick Shanley

Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral…

— John Patrick Shanley