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title: "71 Tennessee Williams Quotes by 65 authors"
description: "Browse 71 Tennessee Williams quotes by 65 authors. Discover the best Tennessee Williams sayings and thoughts."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/919/st-vincent-10256_kids_i-was-a-lusty-kid-who-loved-tennessee-wi_756561.jpg"
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> [I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-vincent/i-was-a-lusty-kid-who-loved-tennessee-williams/)

[St. Vincent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-vincent/)

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> [Tennessee Williams moves my soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zawe-ashton/tennessee-williams-moves-my-soul/)

[Zawe Ashton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zawe-ashton/)

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> [I love Tennessee Williams; as a playwright, he's so poetic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-bourne/i-love-tennessee-williams-as-a-playwright-he-s-so-poetic/)

[Matthew Bourne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-bourne/)

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> [I want to do a Tennessee Williams play.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cobie-smulders/i-want-to-do-a-tennessee-williams-play/)

[Cobie Smulders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cobie-smulders/)

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> [Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-guare/eugene-o-neil-created-an-american-theater-and-tennessee-williams/)

[John Guare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-guare/)

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> [When I'm older, I'd like to play one of Tennessee Williams's women and an older Adelaide in 'Guys and Dolls.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suranne-jones/when-i-m-older-i-d-like-to-play-one-of-tennessee-williams-s-women-and/)

[Suranne Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suranne-jones/)

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> [Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-swanson/tennessee-williams-was-a-gifted-talker-with-a-beautiful-accent-and-we/)

[Gloria Swanson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-swanson/)

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> [I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/i-love-truman-capote-tennessee-williams-flannery-o-connor-i-read-a/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

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> [I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-guare/i-m-an-american-playwright-tennessee-williams-got-in-all-our-dna/)

[John Guare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-guare/)

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> [Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-mooney/tennessee-williams-knew-about-the-south-but-he-would-clean-it-up-and/)

[Paul Mooney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-mooney/)

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> [I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hatch/i-love-tennessee-williams-pieces-they-are-so-poetic-and-i-love-period/)

[Richard Hatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hatch/)

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> [I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-monahan/i-learned-my-job-from-english-dramatists-tennessee-williams-was-no/)

[William Monahan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-monahan/)

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> [Patsy Ferran in Tennessee Williams' 'Summer and Smoke'-I thought that was just one of the most phenomenal performances I've seen from a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zawe-ashton/patsy-ferran-in-tennessee-williams-summer-and-smoke-i-thought-that/)

[Zawe Ashton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zawe-ashton/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horton-foote/i-ve-redone-plays-of-mine-and-made-changes-a-play-is-a-living-thing/)

[Horton Foote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horton-foote/)

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> [“I only met her once. She was introduced to me by, of all people, Gertrude Lawrence . . . Stanwyck was gracious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-wilson/i-only-met-her-once-she-was-introduced-to-me-by-of-all-people/)

[Victoria Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-wilson/)

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> [New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood. It could destroy you financially. It could shun you or embrace you,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julie-smith/new-orleans-could-wreck-your-liver-and-poison-your-blood-it-could/)

[Julie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julie-smith/)

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> [“Isherwood received bags of fan mail, far more than Tennessee Williams had for Memoirs . There was the sexual and jokey (a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-bram/isherwood-received-bags-of-fan-mail-far-more-than-tennessee-williams/)

[Christopher Bram](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-bram/)

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> ['The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jake-t-austin/the-glass-menagerie-by-tennessee-williams-is-a-great-play-i-had-to/)

[Jake T. Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jake-t-austin/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilton-als/i-m-not-one-of-those-people-who-s-against-all-black-productions-of/)

[Hilton Als](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilton-als/)

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> [Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-cattrall/tennessee-williams-was-so-adept-at-portraying-characters-who-are-both/)

[Kim Cattrall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-cattrall/)

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> [The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/the-people-in-this-house-i-felt-and-i-included-myself-were-like/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

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> [If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woody-allen/if-i-had-my-choice-in-life-i-would-have-had-the-gifts-of-tennessee/)

[Woody Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woody-allen/)

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> [I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-wilson/i-wanted-to-be-an-actor-ever-since-i-was-five-my-grandparents-my-mom/)

[Lydia Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-wilson/)

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> [This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/this-fear-is-one-of-the-horrors-of-an-author-s-life-where-does-work/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

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> [“I hated Tennessee Williams's Laura. She reminded me too much of a fairy-tale character. Not the ones my grandmother wrote, allegedly-- those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melissa-albert/i-hated-tennessee-williams-s-laura-she-reminded-me-too-much-of-a/)

[Melissa Albert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melissa-albert/)

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> [“Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we also got…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sharon-salzberg/our-can-do-culture-has-made-many-of-us-believe-that-we-should-always/)

[Sharon Salzberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sharon-salzberg/)

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> [I was up at Big Sur with Christopher Reeve and Christine Lahti, doing this woman in a big fat-suit - Mrs. Bassett…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beth-grant/i-was-up-at-big-sur-with-christopher-reeve-and-christine-lahti-doing/)

[Beth Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beth-grant/)

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> [“I’d never blame anyone else who falls for the same brand of seduction. I embrace that we’re all similarly flawed. That makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-skinner/i-d-never-blame-anyone-else-who-falls-for-the-same-brand-of-seduction/)

[Dan Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-skinner/)

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> [“For (strange as it may sound to many people, who tend to think of critics as being motivated by the lower emotions:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-mendelsohn/for-strange-as-it-may-sound-to-many-people-who-tend-to-think-of/)

[Daniel Mendelsohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-mendelsohn/)

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> [“It’s cruelty that gets to me. Still, it’s important to read about cruelty. “Why is it important?” Because when you read about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/it-s-cruelty-that-gets-to-me-still-it-s-important-to-read-about/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

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> [“We have heard the stories: Duke Ellington would say, “I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-lewis/we-have-heard-the-stories-duke-ellington-would-say-i-merely-took-the/)

[Sarah Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-lewis/)

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> [“You don't notice the dead leaving when they really choose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/you-don-t-notice-the-dead-leaving-when-they-really-choose-to-leave/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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> [Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mindy-kaling/teenage-girls-please-don-t-worry-about-being-super-popular-in-high/)

[Mindy Kaling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mindy-kaling/)

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> [“Tennessee Williams once wrote, 'We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/tennessee-williams-once-wrote-we-all-live-in-a-house-on-fire-no-fire/)

[Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-mowafi/i-have-always-lusted-after-a-sepia-toned-library-with-floor-to/)

[Amy Mowafi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-mowafi/)

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> [Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families. Tennessee Williams quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/friends-are-god-s-way-of-apologizing-to-us-for-our-families-tennessee/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

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> [“Tennessee Williams choked to death on the plastic cap of a nasal spray.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-markson/tennessee-williams-choked-to-death-on-the-plastic-cap-of-a-nasal-spray/)

[David Markson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-markson/)

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> [And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-martin/and-i-d-never-done-tennessee-williams-and-i-had-done-broadway/)

[Andrea Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-martin/)

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> [There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-guare/there-s-no-american-playwright-after-1945-who-wasn-t-profoundly/)

[John Guare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-guare/)

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> [I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-ray-pollock/i-am-very-indebted-to-southern-writers-and-not-just-flannery-o-connor/)

[Donald Ray Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-ray-pollock/)

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                        "text": "“It’s cruelty that gets to me. Still, it’s important to read about cruelty. “Why is it important?” Because when you read about it, it’s easier to recognize. That was always the hardest thing in the refugee camps—to hear the stories of the people who had been raped or mutilated or forced to watch a parent or a sister or a child be raped or killed. It’s very hard to come face-to-face with such cruelty. But people can be cruel in lots of ways, some very subtle. I think that’s why we all need to read about it. I think that’s one of the amazing things about Tennessee Williams’s plays. He was so attuned to cruelty—the way Stanley treats Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. It starts with asides and looks and put-downs. There are so many great examples from Shakespeare—when Goneril torments King Lear or the way Iago speaks to Othello. And what I love about Dickens is the way he presents all types of cruelty. You need to learn to recognize these things right from the start. Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.”",
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