Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
EDWARD ALBEEAudiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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