Also Quote by Sam Shepard

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why…

— Sam Shepard

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the…

— Lee Hall

Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing…

— Alistair Beaton

Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.

— Alice Ripley

If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make a living…

— Tony Kushner

I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if the writing…

— Jonathan Groff

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see…

— Tom Stoppard

As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.

— Jonah Hill

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Writing is like acting on stage because when you write you have to make sure that your readers or audiences will really be entertained…

— Christine Mae Sajo Gallego

The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies - and…

— Matt Damon

Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is…

— Robert Lepage