Actors Quote by Eric Bentley

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

Theatre is an actor's medium though behind the stage there is a playwright, director and perhaps in some, a music composer too, yet the…

— Himani Shivpuri

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in…

— Vivien Leigh

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one…

— Lajos Egri

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

— Christopher Walken

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

— 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

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down…

— Tracy Letts

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

Actors are different. Some actors play themselves very successfully, but I come from the theater. Having done Shakespeare, we sometimes did three or four…

— Stellan Skarsgard

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

— Edward Albee

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

— David Mamet