Horovitz Quotes

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town. — Israel Horovitz

I thought that unless people know me, they wouldn't find me funny. — Heather McDonald

I don't direct the plays of others. — Israel Horovitz

Radical politics tend to be simple minded. — Israel Horovitz

I felt no need to write a German-bashing play. — Israel Horovitz

My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues. — Israel Horovitz

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man. — Salvador Dali

He'd been our center, the glue that held us together and gave us purpose. — Victoria Laurie

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time. — Israel Horovitz

France is very welcoming to foreign writers. — Israel Horovitz

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays. — Israel Horovitz

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera. — Israel Horovitz

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times. — Israel Horovitz

My dream is to have a small company in France. — Israel Horovitz

I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life. — Israel Horovitz

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down. — Israel Horovitz

I've done nothing with my life but write plays. — Israel Horovitz

I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe. — Israel Horovitz

Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place. — Israel Horovitz

I am an internationally produced playwright. — Israel Horovitz

I was not to the manor born. — Israel Horovitz

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles.
Muad'Dib — Frank Herbert

L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute. — Israel Horovitz

It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work. — Israel Horovitz

I've always been a fighter - it's always been a part of my personality. — Israel Horovitz

Benevolent throne set someplace high up on the moon. — Elizabeth Gilbert

And this new air was so delicious, and all his old life seemed so far away, that he forgot for a moment about his bruises and his aching muscles. — C.S. Lewis

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah. — Israel Horovitz

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way. — Israel Horovitz

I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing. — Israel Horovitz