Abyss Quote by John Cameron Mitchell

The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.

— Edward Albee

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

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

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

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

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

— Val Kilmer

Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.

— Mickey Mantle

[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

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my…

— Gene Wilder

I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very…

— Steve Coogan

Little Christian Bale. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and I re-watched it not too long ago, and my jaw…

— Danny Strong