Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
EDWARD ALBEEArt has an obligation to offend.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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Every monster was a man first.
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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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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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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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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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