Actor Quote by Edward Albee

I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine…

— Edward Albee

About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said I'd been…

— Edward Albee

The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of…

— Edward Albee

There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should…

— Edward Albee

I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.

— Edward Albee

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

— Edward Albee

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

— Edward Albee

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

— Edward Albee

In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive. A number…

— Edward Albee

Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite it if…

— Edward Albee

A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the…

— Edward Albee

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

— Edward Albee