Plays Quotes
1510 quotes by 1229 authors
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I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would talk to the…
— Denis Villeneuve
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I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write…
— Hannah Kent
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I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter,…
— Tom Stoppard
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Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking…
— Tom Stoppard
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I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid.…
— Johan Cruyff
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I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot,…
— Suzanne Collins
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Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays, and it just…
— Unknown Author
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Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.
— Anthony Albanese
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More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
— Craig Brown
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For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from…
— Noel Wells
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Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.
— Derrick Jensen
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The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist…
— Elliott Abrams
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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
— Bob Seger
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
— Ban Ki-moon
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Usually, you get to interview that one girl who plays the sister on some Disney show - you interview that girl a lot - but…
— Ross Mathews
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The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.
— John Patrick Shanley
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I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and…
— John Patrick Shanley
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My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went…
— David Henry Hwang
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension…
— Adam Rapp
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In New York, there are a lot of plays to see, and I try to see as many as I can.
— Horton Foote
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