There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
EDWARD ALBEEA lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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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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I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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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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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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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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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.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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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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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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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