“Thank God we can't see the future, we'd never get out of bed.” — Tracy Letts Future Copy Share Image
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use… — Tracy Letts Action Copy Share Image
Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up… — Tracy Letts Care Copy Share Image
I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good. — Tracy Letts Affinity Copy Share Image
“VIOLET: Oh, horseshit, horeshit, let's all say horseshit. Say horseshit, Bill. BILL: Horseshit.” — Tracy Letts Horseshit Copy Share Image
“We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian.” — Tracy Letts Dysfunctional-families Copy Share Image
All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was… — Tracy Letts Different Copy Share Image
Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad.… — Tracy Letts Bits Copy Share Image
I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never… — Tracy Letts Hell Copy Share Image
I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our… — Tracy Letts Actor Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd give advice. That never pays off. That's always a bad idea. If they follow your advice and it… — Tracy Letts Advice Copy Share Image
'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theater's Lab - a 40 seat black… — Tracy Letts Acting Copy Share Image
The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it's a John Wells… — Tracy Letts August Copy Share Image
Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'm quite sure that any… — Tracy Letts Actor Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when… — Tracy Letts Access Copy Share Image
“You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love… — Tracy Letts Character Copy Share Image
I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of… — Tracy Letts Cinema Copy Share Image
You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't… — Tracy Letts Character Copy Share Image
I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that moment will… — Tracy Letts Blood Copy Share Image
Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get… — Tracy Letts Able Copy Share Image
You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I… — Tracy Letts Assuming Copy Share Image
The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach. — Tracy Letts Nighttime Copy Share Image
We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more. — Tracy Letts Biology Copy Share Image
What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.… — Tracy Letts Cutting Copy Share Image
I try to write fun - though difficult and challenging - things for actors to do, because I know if they're having… — Tracy Letts Actor Copy Share Image
I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent. — Tracy Letts Dissent Copy Share Image
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love. — Tracy Letts Book Copy Share Image
“You know, this country was always pretty much a whorehouse, but at least it used to have some promise. Now it’s just… — Tracy Letts Whorehouse Copy Share Image
“BARBARA: They're called Native Americans now, Mom. VIOLET: Who calls them that? Who makes that decision?” — Tracy Letts Native americans Copy Share Image
One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations. — Tracy Letts Create Copy Share Image
![“You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged…” quote by Tracy Letts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/de8/tracy-letts-12197_assuming_you-know-people-see-august-osage-county_2789355.jpg)
