Playwright Quotes

155 quotes by 129 authors

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. — Tony Kushner
I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more… — Tony Kushner
I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright… — Tony Kushner
One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the… — Vivien Leigh
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. — Laura Linney
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of… — Laura Linney
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and… — George R. R. Martin
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. — Arthur Miller
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. — Wilson Mizner
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. — Walter Dean Myers
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. — George Jean Nathan
If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it? — Phylicia Rashad
I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist. — Jose Saramago
I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know… — Wallace Shawn
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas.… — Tom Stoppard
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write… — Tom Stoppard
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of… — Twyla Tharp
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. — Peter Ustinov
Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence… — Peter Ustinov
The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee. — Brian K. Vaughan

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