Plays Quotes
1510 quotes by 1229 authors
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You know, I grew up watching all kinds of films. So, as an adult, I wanted to be involved in all kinds of plays and…
— David Schwimmer
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Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with…
— David Schwimmer
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Not every kid plays football, basketball. Running can be a source to vent and let things out.
— J. R. Martinez
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I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot…
— Vinny Guadagnino
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By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and…
— Carrie Preston
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I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but then I really…
— Elizabeth Reaser
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I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress…
— Laura Ziskin
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When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I…
— Nick Offerman
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I write plays about big, intense subjects.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is…
— Jane Smiley
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The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries, even those most…
— Michael Mandelbaum
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Every now and then, Prince decides to try being a normal rock star. You know, the kind who does a professional arena tour where he…
— Rob Sheffield
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
— Wallace Shawn
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From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played…
— Wallace Shawn
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I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.
— Suraj Sharma
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The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.
— Douglas Kennedy
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There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women -…
— Marsha Norman
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At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
— Marsha Norman
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Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
— Marcia Angell
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Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.
— Lynn Nottage
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