Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
EDWARD ALBEE
When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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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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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.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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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.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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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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The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
EDWARD ALBEE