A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
EDWARD ALBEEA lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
EDWARD ALBEEWhen 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.
EDWARD ALBEEArt should never try to be popular.
EDWARD ALBEECreativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
EDWARD ALBEEWhat people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
EDWARD ALBEEThere are only two things to write about: life and death.
EDWARD ALBEEA writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
EDWARD ALBEEI think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
EDWARD ALBEEThe most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
EDWARD ALBEEYour source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
EDWARD ALBEEI am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
EDWARD ALBEEYou’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
EDWARD ALBEEIf you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
EDWARD ALBEEMartha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
EDWARD ALBEEThere are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
EDWARD ALBEEWhen a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
EDWARD ALBEE