The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.

EDWARD ALBEE

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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.

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Bagwalas

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.

EDWARD ALBEE

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
EDWARD ALBEE

Oneself Performance Privacy
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
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.

EDWARD ALBEE

I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
EDWARD ALBEE
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

EDWARD ALBEE

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
EDWARD ALBEE
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.

EDWARD ALBEE

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
EDWARD ALBEE

Production
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

EDWARD ALBEE

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
EDWARD ALBEE
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.

EDWARD ALBEE

I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
EDWARD ALBEE

Nourishment Reassurance
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.

EDWARD ALBEE

Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
EDWARD ALBEE

Creativity Examination
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.

EDWARD ALBEE

School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
EDWARD ALBEE

Production
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?

EDWARD ALBEE

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?
EDWARD ALBEE

End Realization
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
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
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
I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.

EDWARD ALBEE

I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
EDWARD ALBEE
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.

EDWARD ALBEE

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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Confusion
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.

EDWARD ALBEE

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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Production

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