It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday. — John Guare Hope Copy Share Image
Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed. — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York. — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet. — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure. — John Guare Copy Share Image
I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are… — John Guare Risk Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one. — John Guare Copy Share Image
The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry,… — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all… — John Guare Dublin Copy Share Image
I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can… — John Guare Copy Share Image
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what… — John Guare Artist Copy Share Image
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know… — John Guare Book Copy Share Image
What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You… — John Guare Copy Share Image
The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that… — John Guare Imagination Copy Share Image
Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How… — John Guare Art Copy Share Image
I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town… — John Guare Backstage Copy Share Image
You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what's onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the… — John Guare Adventure Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and… — John Guare Bounds Copy Share Image
“But if I had to choose between where I live and you, I'd rip up everything I own because the only landscape… — John Guare Human body Copy Share Image
Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing. — John Guare Copy Share Image