When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up? — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ...… — Edward Albee 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. They determine… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
