Alive Quote by Edward Albee

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on…

— Constantin Stanislavski

A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to…

— Moss Hart

If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely…

— Emma Thompson

I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.

— Edward Albee

I think you have to experience life and then pull certain experiences into your act and your character's life, whoever you play, so you're…

— Jimmy O. Yang

I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and…

— Jeffrey DeMunn

I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

— Mekhi Phifer

The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.

— Marsha Mason

The play is so close to the reality. . . . It comes out of the heart.

— Barbara Williams

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a…

— Wendy Wasserstein

Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play.

— Rutina Wesley

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you…

— Kevin Spacey