Any Quote by Alan Alda Download Open image “Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.” — Alan Alda ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Any Get Getting Hard Harder Play Plays Stage Theatre Write Writing
anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make a living… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre. — Donna McKechnie Copy Share Image
Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at. — David Hare Copy Share Image
Plays are definitely the most difficult of them all. They are entirely a different category altogether. I don't have the courage to try out… — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program. — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them;… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
