All Wendy Wasserstein Quotes
- As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole. Always Keep
- The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends. Continuity
- I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll… Down
- The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential gives… Ability
- Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential. According
- The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. Comedy
- One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say,… Buy
- I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women… Allowed
- I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with them.… Character
- Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen. Cause
- I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting… All
- The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone. Grown
- Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment. Ambiguous
- The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people… Age
- Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. Advice
- Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. Assuming
- Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want… Bag
- The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for… Balance
- Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people. Anyone
- No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being… Alone
- No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds,… Gotten
- Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven. Age