My Plays Quotes

45 quotes by 32 authors

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs. — Edward Bond
In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into… — Christopher Fry
I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard.… — Jesse Eisenberg
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing. — Eric Bogosian
You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working. — Horton Foote
I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by… — August Wilson
I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my… — Harold Pinter
I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's only 'cause they… — Terrence McNally
Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do. — Edward Albee
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language — Elfriede Jelinek
In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African. — Paul Robeson
My fault now is making my plays too short. — Beth Henley
My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity. — David Lindsay-Abaire
Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of… — Edward Bond
The one overall structure in my plays is language — Edward Bond
I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood. — Sebastian Barry
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we… — August Wilson
I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How do we tell… — John Guare
Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself… — David Hare
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it,… — Sam Shepard

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