Always fighting Quote by Wallace Shawn

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and…

— Doc Watson

Our job is to unleash the play. It's not just about your character or interaction with the other characters. There's an energy in all…

— Glenda Jackson

My life is in dialogue with the plays that I write. The relationship I have with my plays is very, very intimate, and I…

— Patrick Marber

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

— Tom Stoppard

Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

— Anonymous

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

One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the…

— Adam Rapp

Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship.

— Gregory Bateson

You can love a play and character and can be the right person to tell that story. But if you don't click with the…

— Jonathan Bailey

I know that in writer's rooms across North America, there are still conversations about how much is too much when it comes to intimacy…

— Dan Levy

In the given circumstances you must be rooted in the play. Do not depart from the play. Don't cut yourself off from your partner…

— Constantin Stanislavski

If someone else was in the room, I wouldn't feel comfortable doing what I wanted to do. I would try to play something that…

— Juana Molina