The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
EDWARD ALBEEAudiences 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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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 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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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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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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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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Every monster was a man first.
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