Playwright Quotes
Playwright Quote of the day
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
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.
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.
I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.
Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our job is to support their poetic direction.
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.
I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.
My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.
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.
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.
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?
I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.
The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician.
Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.
William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
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.
The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.
We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.
If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'
If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.
I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.
