Playwright Quotes
I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
Hanif Kureishi
British playwright
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
Jean Kerr
Irish-American author and playwright
Affairs have been going on since Tolstoy.
Jean Kerr
Irish-American author and playwright
I realize that I am never going to grow up.
Martin Mcdonagh
British-Irish playwright
I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I thought theater was for, you know, insufferable actors.
Ellen Mclaughlin
American playwright
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright
It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing is the next line.
Tom Stoppard
Playwright
I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.
James Kirkwood
playwright
When I was in my early twenties, I spent six months bedbound with a condition called Cholinergic Urticaria that basically means I'm allergic to heat, including my own body. It was bad.
Jack Thorne
British playwright
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
Tom Stoppard
Playwright
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
Tom Stoppard
Playwright
My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright
I'm not a really firm believer in theatre that is 'about anything.' I don't think theatre can be about anything other than the people who show up and the value that they hold.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
American playwright
Through school, I saw plenty of theatre my parents weren't necessarily up on. They would prefer a football game to watching 'The Nutcracker,' and that's fine. I enjoy both.
Katori Hall
American playwright
I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured.
Tom Stoppard
Playwright
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.
John Guare
American playwright
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
James M. Barrie
Scottish novelist
I wrote about 22 plays before 'When You Cure Me,' which was staged in 2005. I occasionally get them out and have a read, thinking maybe there's a thought or an idea or even a turn of phrase that I could use for something new. There's not. They're dire.
Jack Thorne
British playwright
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
William Shakespeare
English playwright
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Irish satirist
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