Actor Quote by Ellen McLaughlin

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

— Christopher Denham

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

— George Jean Nathan

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity.…

— Israel Horovitz

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that…

— Liev Schreiber

I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our theater know…

— Tracy Letts

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because…

— Ellen McLaughlin

I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I…

— Ellen McLaughlin

I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together,…

— Scott Raab

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

— Michael Douglas

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and…

— Richard Greenberg

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand