Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
EDWARD ALBEEThe most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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 write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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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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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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 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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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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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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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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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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