Richard LaGravenese

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

— Richard LaGravenese

How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to…

— Richard LaGravenese

If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.

— Richard LaGravenese

I'm a dramatist.

— Richard LaGravenese

Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.

— Richard LaGravenese

What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a…

— Richard LaGravenese

I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We're very possessive,…

— Richard LaGravenese

The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that…

— Richard LaGravenese

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

— Richard LaGravenese

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.

— Richard LaGravenese

I always thought that if you don't feel the breath in the actors' bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth.

— Richard LaGravenese

I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my…

— Richard LaGravenese

You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could…

— Richard LaGravenese

I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I…

— Richard LaGravenese

Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose…

— Richard LaGravenese

The South is like a foreign country to me!

— Richard LaGravenese

Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I used to go cuckoo when I would see…

— Richard LaGravenese

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.

— Richard LaGravenese

. . . I felt that making her one-dimensional would be an insult to the audience, and also not as interesting. All…

— Richard LaGravenese

Every marriage is weird! That's what it is - we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no…

— Richard LaGravenese

I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.

— Richard LaGravenese

The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to…

— Richard LaGravenese

The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who…

— Richard LaGravenese

I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have…

— Richard LaGravenese

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

— Richard LaGravenese