Best Playwrights Quotes

45 Playwrights quotes by 41 unique authors

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. — Stella Adler
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'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
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 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
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
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate… — Helen Hayes
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief… — Upton Sinclair
With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans… — Athol Fugard
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and… — Brian Eno
I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience. — Diane Paulus
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play… — Lajos Egri
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a… — Israel Horovitz
I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young… — Laura Wade
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was… — J. G. Ballard
Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better. — Peter Shaffer
Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics. — Lynn Nottage
My favorite musical...it used to be when I was growing up, Miss Saigon, but I dont know, I dont really like it anymore. You know,… — Matthew Morrison

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