Actor Quote by Alice Ripley

I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn't afford the rights - it was an adaptation of…

— Jack Thorne

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

— Kelli O'Hara

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

I would like to write a play.

— Tim Rice

By the time someone gave me some samples of standard screenplays I was already beyond that stuff, because I was not only a tinkerer…

— William Monahan

I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when I was…

— Tracy Letts

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go…

— Santiago Cabrera

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.…

— Linda Lavin

There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't…

— Charles Busch

My first major role was in a play called 'Through the Leaves.'

— Ken Stott

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

— Garth Greenwell

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I…

— Dan Castellaneta