Consolation Quote by Conor McPherson

“And what she loved about Lydia’s play: that it gets at this idea that true sacrifice is painless.”

— Jess Walter

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that…

— Lalla Ward

There's something so fun to play about a character where at the end of the day, all she wants is for everyone to have…

— Rachel Sennott

She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has…

— Elizabeth Berg

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a…

— George Eliot

'State of Play' is a romantic story at its heart.

— Kevin Macdonald

The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had…

— Arthur Miller

“Does it seem reasonable that she should play so wonderfully, and live so quietly? I suspect that one day she will be wonderful in…

— E.M. Forster

A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be…

— Mike Nichols

“Yes, the play of her life had begun, and whether it was to be a tragedy or a comedy who could tell?[99] Probably, neither;…

— Rhoda Broughton

She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne