I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
EDWARD ALBEEIt is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Well, 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.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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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 write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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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