Dead Quote by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps…

— Virginia Woolf

“There are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem…

— James A. Baldwin

“There are many actors alone who haven't acted Pirandello or Shaw or Shakespeare for years because their plays are too aware of the world.…

— Ray Bradbury

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.

— Ellen Terry

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do…

— Terrence McNally

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be…

— James A. Baldwin

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

— Anne Parillaud

There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether…

— Hannah Arendt