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playwright Quotes and Quotations
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The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. Stella Adler | top
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The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play. Robert Anderson | top
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material. Orlando Bloom | top
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky. Orson Scott Card | top
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I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. Francis Ford Coppola | top
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I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions? Don DeLillo | top
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If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes. Brad Dourif | top
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Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled. William Goldman | top
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Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future. Mark Helprin | top
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It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright. Beth Henley | top
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One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays. Vivien Leigh | top
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. Laura Linney | top
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All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years. Joseph L. Mankiewicz | top
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As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand. Ethel Merman | top
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. Arthur Miller | top
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. George Jean Nathan | top
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. Gavin Newsom | top
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A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute. Terence Rattigan | top
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I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright. Liev Schreiber | top
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I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character. Lusia Strus | top
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I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights. Lusia Strus | top
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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. Peter Ustinov | top
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Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. Peter Ustinov | top
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A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves. Timothy West | top
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The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. Timothy West | top
