Character Quote by Edward Albee

What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before I invented…

— 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

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of…

— David Mamet

Our job is to unleash the play. It's not just about your character or interaction with the other characters. There's an energy in all…

— Glenda Jackson

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't…

— Sam Shepard

To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.

— Jamie Dornan

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out…

— Tom Stoppard

I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience.

— Joe Mantello

You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character.

— Peter Riegert

When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to…

— Lynn Nottage

“There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the short short…

— Irving Howe

It's a rare opportunity to play a character that is not only a lot of fun to portray, but it's also rare to play…

— Scott Michael Foster