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.
EDWARD ALBEEThere are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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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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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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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.
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When 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.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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