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I write to find out what I’m talking about.

Edward Albee

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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.

EDWARD ALBEE

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 ALBEE

Audience End Theatre
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
EDWARD ALBEE
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

EDWARD ALBEE

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
EDWARD ALBEE

Stage
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

EDWARD ALBEE

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
EDWARD ALBEE

Preference
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

EDWARD ALBEE

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
EDWARD ALBEE

Responsibility
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.

EDWARD ALBEE

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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Way
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.

EDWARD ALBEE

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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Oneself
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

EDWARD ALBEE

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
EDWARD ALBEE

Decorative
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.

EDWARD ALBEE

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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Disturbance Escape
Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.

EDWARD ALBEE

Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
EDWARD ALBEE
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.

EDWARD ALBEE

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
EDWARD ALBEE
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.

EDWARD ALBEE

First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
EDWARD ALBEE

Method
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.

EDWARD ALBEE

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
EDWARD ALBEE
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 ALBEE

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 ALBEE

Adoption Mom
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.

EDWARD ALBEE

It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
EDWARD ALBEE

Responsibility Theatre
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.

EDWARD ALBEE

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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Concept Evolution

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