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 ALBEEThe 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Art should never try to be popular.
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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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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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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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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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