Stephen Adly Guirgis

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“JUDGE LITTLEFIELD (re: the writ): Cunningham, I do not like it when lawyers go over my head. CUNNINGHAM: You gave me no…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“Oh, just some crap about the essential paradox of man: How we refuse to juxtapose the absolute to the relative, and some…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“What is it that we need to overcome in order to truly be “Ourselves”?”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“I do know that I am in continuous need of the Spiritual and that I usually go to great lengths to avoid…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Good. Now, when I come to court dressed as Ethel Merman in a one-piece bathing suit, that’ll be my signal…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“Thomas Merton said, “To be a saint means to be myself.”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“CUNNINGHAM:—Your Honor, I cite the Beatitudes, and Kierkegaard. I cite Christ on the Cross! JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: I cite my foot in your…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“MARY MAGDALENE: I also knew Judas Iscariot very well. SAINT MONICA: Gangsta!”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“Do you know who W.H. Auden was, Mr. Iscariot? W.H. Auden was a poet who once said, “God may reduce you on…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: What’s your name, Bailiff?! BAILIFF: Julius of Outer Mongolia.”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Your client is Judas Iscariot! Your client sold out the son of God, for Chrissakes!”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“The synthesis of Love and Justice can produce only Mercy and Forgiveness, Your Honor! If a just God sits in Heaven, it…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“But even more than Tapioca, Cunningham, I dislike the following: Defense Attorneys as a rule, half-breeds in general, and Judas Iscariot as…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“BAILIFF (cautiously): Sir, his name’s El-Fayoumy. JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: What? BAILIFF: You called him El-Fajita. JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Just gimme my glasses! BAILIFF: You’re…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“EL-FAYOUMY: May I approach you? JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: The bench, not me!”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“God is fucking stealing souls again!”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

To write drama is to leave a can of Coke by the side of the road. Then, sit on that can of…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“CUNNINGHAM: Mother Teresa, if abortion is so terrible, then how come I’m not in Hell? MOTHER TERESA: I don’t know. Did anybody…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“JUDAS: Clams, man, I haven’t been laid in three years, bro. Can ya believe that—guy like me? SATAN: Three years? JUDAS: I…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis