Born Quote by Gore Vidal

I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment…

— Edward Albee

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

— Courtney B. Vance

I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone to something…

— Jennifer Tipton

“I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going…

— Jean Webster

I've done a lot of Shakespeare over the years. You start to realise how the plays fit together; he's always using pieces from one…

— Harriet Walter

If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his perspective; each…

— Joyce Carol Oates

When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.

— Sam Shepard

I'd love to do more Shakespeare but Shakespeare didn't write parts for older women.

— Geraldine James

I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a fun-filled, joyous…

— Steve Antin

“We are playwrights in that we spontaneously compose and direct dialogue, acting out various roles of a nurturer, an authority, or a character from…

— Jeffrey A. Kottler

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

Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two or three…

— Al Pacino