There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
EDWARD ALBEEThe only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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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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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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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 have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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?!
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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