Admire Quote by Edward Albee

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

— John Cameron Mitchell

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him…

— Harold Pinter

Samuel Beckett. He is a kind of hero for me.

— Peter Handke

Beckett was the most thorough of playwrights. He tells you what to do and if you've any humility at all, you'll take his advice.

— Adrian Dunbar

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

— Val Kilmer

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

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Mae West

My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour or like…

— Simon Critchley

I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation…

— Barry Humphries

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

— John Cameron Mitchell

[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have…

— Robert Dessaix