When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
EDWARD ALBEEWhen people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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I 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.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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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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 only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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Your 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.
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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