Plays Quotes

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This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays. — Jeffrey Jones
Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World War… — Vicki Myron
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels.… — Patrick Marber
What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed. — Whitey Herzog
Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books,… — Angelina Jolie
Andrea Jaeger plays tennis like she's double-parked. — Mary Carillo
To beat Federer 3 times does not mean anything he is a genius whose hair does not even move when he plays. — Unknown Author
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place… — George Farquhar
The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays. — Stella Adler
It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast. — John Gielgud
I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time? — Clive Barnes
It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste… — William Prynne
Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy. — Brooks Atkinson
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish… — Wallace Shawn
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
I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often I've had satisfaction… — Lillian Hellman
As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But… — Harold Pinter
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to… — August Wilson
There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays… — Robert Edmond Jones
You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of… — Michael Jordan

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