Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing. — John Guare Copy Share Image
When I'm older, I'd like to play one of Tennessee Williams's women and an older Adelaide in 'Guys and Dolls.' — Suranne Jones Copy Share Image
Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. — Gloria Swanson Copy Share Image
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces. — Richard Hatch Copy Share Image
I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Patsy Ferran in Tennessee Williams' 'Summer and Smoke'-I thought that was just one of the most phenomenal performances I've seen from a… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wouldn't rewrite years… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
“I only met her once. She was introduced to me by, of all people, Gertrude Lawrence . . . Stanwyck was gracious… — Victoria Wilson Copy Share Image
New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood. It could destroy you financially. It could shun you or embrace you,… — Julie Smith Copy Share Image
“Isherwood received bags of fan mail, far more than Tennessee Williams had for Memoirs . There was the sexual and jokey (a… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but… — Jake T. Austin Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who's against all-black productions of Tennessee Williams plays, but there are lot more complex and natural… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life,… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were… — Lydia Wilson Copy Share Image
This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“I hated Tennessee Williams's Laura. She reminded me too much of a fairy-tale character. Not the ones my grandmother wrote, allegedly-- those… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we also got… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I was up at Big Sur with Christopher Reeve and Christine Lahti, doing this woman in a big fat-suit - Mrs. Bassett… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
“I’d never blame anyone else who falls for the same brand of seduction. I embrace that we’re all similarly flawed. That makes… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
“For (strange as it may sound to many people, who tend to think of critics as being motivated by the lower emotions:… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“It’s cruelty that gets to me. Still, it’s important to read about cruelty. “Why is it important?” Because when you read about… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“We have heard the stories: Duke Ellington would say, “I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“You don't notice the dead leaving when they really choose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“Tennessee Williams once wrote, 'We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I have always lusted after a sepia-toned library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and a sliding ladder. I fantasie about Tennessee Williams' types of… — Amy Mowafi Copy Share Image
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families. Tennessee Williams quotes — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Tennessee Williams choked to death on the plastic cap of a nasal spray.” — David Markson Copy Share Image
And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge. — Andrea Martin Copy Share Image
There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams. — John Guare Copy Share Image
I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
