Playwrights Quotes
45 quotes by 42 authors
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a…
— J. J. Abrams
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that…
— Orlando Bloom
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As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand
— Ethel Merman
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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side!…
— Howard Zinn
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Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an…
— Patti Smith
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Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands…
— Daniel J. Sullivan
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Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a story…
— Amy Holden Jones
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The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
— Timothy West
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I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me…
— Alfred Lunt
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Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
— Yasmina Reza
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Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit…
— Meredith Willson
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Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.
— Janet Malcolm
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If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank…
— Brenda Ueland
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I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.
— David Suchet
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I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and…
— Lusia Strus
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What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for many…
— Caridad Svich
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Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that…
— Terrence McNally
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I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year,…
— Gregory A. Boyd
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Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights has…
— Peter Stone
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You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think…
— Tony Kushner
Who Wrote These Playwrights Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 45 Playwrights Quotes, led by these top contributors: