80s Quote by Denzel Washington

August Wilson is the one writer that writes about men like my father, who had a fifth grade education, who was a janitor at…

— Viola Davis

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

— Mae West

It just happened that we did [Fences] seven years ago on Broadway. Scott Rudin brought me August Wilson's original screenplay for it, and I…

— Denzel Washington

The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job,…

— Elizabeth Marvel

I've been a fan of Wendell Pierce for a very long time. He was in one of my early movies and he brings such…

— Rick Famuyiwa

Harold Wilson is a significant and fascinating character in our history.

— Jason Watkins

In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started…

— Aaron Brookner

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

— John Cameron Mitchell

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested…

— Jonathan Dee

I play with Wilson since I was a kid.

— Aryna Sabalenka

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

— Beth Henley

I go to Stanford, and I'm an economics major, not thinking I'm going to do anything with acting. A professor came to the dorm…

— Sterling K. Brown