A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
EDWARD ALBEEProgress is a set of assumptions.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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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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You’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?
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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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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The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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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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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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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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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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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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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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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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