Tracy Letts Quotes

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• Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
• All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and…
• The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.
• I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that moment will always be that…
• After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the…
• I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.
• My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.
• We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.
• Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.
• Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just...…
• In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on…
• When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.
• I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes that give an…
• The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to…

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