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 ALBEEAnything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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