"The modern economics of the theater is such……" — John Patrick Shanley
"The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters."
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20 Quotes by John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley has 20 quotes on this site.
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I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.
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Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?
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I have doubts! I have such doubts!
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Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give…
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All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and…
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Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
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Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you…
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If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts…
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dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank…
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Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite…
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I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life,…
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Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't…
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More Characters Quotes
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one of 2,913 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about…
— J. J. Abrams
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Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
— Darren Aronofsky
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
— Victoria Abril
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Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These…
— Chinua Achebe
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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political…
— Margaret Atwood
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search…
— Paul Auster
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than…
— Richard Bach
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I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
— Kevin Bacon
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I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it…
— Amy Adams
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I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.
— Christian Bale
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