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?!
EDWARD ALBEEWell, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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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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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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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.
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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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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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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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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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