Plays Quotes

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I love opening night, and I love doing plays. But one of my favorite parts about doing a play or working on a new play… — Betsy Brandt
I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I… — Chad Lindberg
I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I was probably a… — Melissa Ordway
I continue to be known as a guy that plays really complex, three-dimensional characters. — Robert Knepper
I like musicals that look more like plays. — Unknown Author
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor. — Gene Wilder
One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal… — Arthur Penn
In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more… — Colm Toibin
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to… — Florence King
When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. — Tracy Letts
I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of David Lynch, for… — Trent Reznor
I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to… — Ashwin Sanghi
Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage. — Alan Alda
I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically. — Stephen Sondheim
I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are. — Stephen Sondheim
When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong. — Joe Paterno
How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here. — Vladimir Putin
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good… — David Mamet
I was very close to my father. At the age of ten I wanted to do plays, and my father was very encouraging. When I… — Kim Cattrall
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series.… — Alison Gopnik

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