Comedy Quote by Paul Watzlawick

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself,…

— Anonymous

A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be…

— Mike Nichols

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice,…

— David Hume

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.

— Michael O'Keefe

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

“If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction either from the…

— David Hume

“He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed by the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of…

— Kakuzō Okakura

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of…

— Ben Brantley

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have…

— Arthur Miller