Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that… — John Guare Book Copy Share Image
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? — John Guare Amnesia Copy Share Image
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
Bob, it's the second night of violence in this normally quiet, yet generally swinging, Casino Capital of the East. — John Guare Casino Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee. — John Guare Bride 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'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one. — John Guare Copy Share Image
I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing… — John Guare Alive Copy Share Image
“the painter, Cezanne, would leave blank spaces on his canvas when he couldn’t account for the brush strokes, or the color”--- “How… — John Guare Artist Copy Share Image
There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams. — John Guare Copy Share Image
I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business… — John Guare Business Copy Share Image
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter… — John Guare Character Copy Share Image
Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we… — John Guare Art Copy Share Image
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming… — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities… — John Guare 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
![“What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean…” quote by John Guare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/845/john-guare-10082_believe_what-i-hate-about-kitchen-sink-dramas-is_1436898.jpg)
