Albee Quotes
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There's no limit to you, is there?
— Edward Albee
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
— Edward Albee
I created myself, and I'll attack anybody I feel like.
— Edward Albee
Creativity is magic, don't examine it too closely.
— Edward Albee
I dance like the wind.
— Edward Albee
I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
— Edward Albee
How different our prayer life would be if we submitted our will to God's. Imagine if we asked only for things to benefit His kingdom.
— Amber Albee Swenson
Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
— Edward Albee
First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
— Edward Albee
Lady, you can't fuck a metaphor.
— Edward Albee
Any definition which limits us is deplorable.
— Edward Albee
Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part.
— Edward Albee
You want to dance with me, angel tits?
— Edward Albee
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
— Edward Albee
The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
— Edward Albee
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
— Edward Albee
Every monster was a man first.
— Edward Albee
If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
— Edward Albee
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
— Edward Albee
Death is release, if you've lived all right.
— Edward Albee
To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.
— Edward Albee
The world is a zoo
— Edward Albee
Art has an obligation to offend
— 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
I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
— Edward Albee
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
— Edward Albee
In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No ... right up to your nose ... that's much quieter.
— Edward Albee
You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
— Edward Albee
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
— Edward Albee
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
— Edward Albee
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
— Edward Albee
To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.
— Edward Albee
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
— Edward Albee
The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
— Edward Albee
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.
— Edward Albee
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. — Edward Albee
I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
— Edward Albee
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
— Edward Albee
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
— Edward Albee
Good writers define realityBad ones merely restate it. — Edward Albee
You're in a straight line, buddy-boy, and it doesn't lead anywhere ... except maybe the grave.
— Edward Albee
I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
— Edward Albee
I write to find out what I'm talking about.
— Edward Albee
The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
— Edward Albee
I'm infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.
— Edward Albee
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
— Edward Albee
Who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension ...
— Edward Albee
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative processit is, after all, black magic. — 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
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.
Martha: Amen. — Edward Albee
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
— Edward Albee
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
— Edward Albee
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
— Edward Albee
Progress is a set of assumptions.
— Edward Albee
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
— Edward Albee
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.
— Edward Albee
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
— Edward Albee
Art should never try to be popular.
— Edward Albee
Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
— Edward Albee
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
— Edward Albee
All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
— Edward Albee
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
— Edward Albee
We must have that put in Latin - We do what we can - on
— Edward Albee
