Playwright Quotes

155 quotes by 129 authors

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich. — John Mahoney
Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell. — Katori Hall
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers. — Katori Hall
I never wanted to be a playwright. — Zoe Kazan
In terms of collaboration, working on a new piece is always thrilling, as I'm sure most people would say, because the playwright is in the… — Gideon Glick
It's a lucky circumstance when you get to usher in new work, because you are able to ask the playwright and the director (who in… — Gideon Glick
I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so… — Mitchell Hurwitz
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material… — Stella Adler
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. — Stella Adler
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention of Love (his… — Mel Gussow
I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and… — August Wilson
I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together, you… — Scott Raab
I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. — Francis Ford Coppola
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was… — Francis Ford Coppola
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it. — Mos Def
You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a… — Robert Duvall
I'm not a playwright. — Bob Dylan
It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive. — Jesse Eisenberg
David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you… — Tom Hardy
Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays… — Mindy Kaling

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