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If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright. — Marsha Norman

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet. — Maximilian Schell

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations. — Tracy Letts

I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright. — George M. Cohan

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.' — Ann-Marie MacDonald

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. — C.S. Lewis

I'm not a playwright. — Bob Dylan

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee. — Brian K. Vaughan

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage. — Edward Albee

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that. — Cherry Jones

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York. — Christopher Denham

It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright. — Laura Wade

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character. — Lusia Strus

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need. — John Guare

We all think we are actors, given our scripts. But really? You're the playwright. You're the composer. — David Levithan

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. — Tony Kushner

The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative ... She's a playwright and she's a musician. — Jazmine Sullivan

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. — John Lithgow

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. — George Bernard Shaw

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. — Arthur Miller

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. — George Jean Nathan

Everything influences playwrights. A playwright who isn't influenced is never of any use. — Arthur Miller

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute. — Terence Rattigan

YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS. — Tony Kushner

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star. — Sam Shepard

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet. — Pearl Cleage

Write Scientific Fantasies! - B. Sablerfils, playwright of A Hero for All Ages, shows you how! Inquire at the University of New Seran. — Brandon Sanderson

If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke. — Sacha Guitry

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed — Sherrilyn Kenyon

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams. — John Guare

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from. — Greta Gerwig

I never wanted to be a playwright. — Zoe Kazan

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it. — Edward Albee

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said. — Vaclav Havel

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich. — John Mahoney

I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater. — Rodman Philbrick

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.' — Sarah Jessica Parker

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form. — August Strindberg

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright. — Atom Egoyan

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly. — Richard Greenberg

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage. — Edward Albee

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. Jean Anouilh, French dramatist and playwright — George Washington

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist. — Jose Saramago

With the softest hand, you can shape the hardest rocks! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. — Alex Cox

I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it. — John Patrick Shanley

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living. — Sherwood Anderson

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. — Adam Rapp

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. — Walter Dean Myers

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight. — Lewis Black

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. — Francis Ford Coppola

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. — Tom Stoppard

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental. — Suzan-Lori Parks

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write. — Libba Bray

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work. — David Henry Hwang

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. — Laura Linney

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. — Wilson Mizner

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness. — Kenneth Tynan

I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much. — Ellen McLaughlin

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. — Tom Stoppard

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright. — Beth Henley

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good. — Aaron Sorkin

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list. — Tracy Letts

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden. — Harold Bloom

Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays. — Terry Teachout

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves. — Timothy West

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it? — Phylicia Rashad

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor. — Eric Bentley

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet. — Phyllis McGinley

A good heart is a beautiful home where you can always find peace! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by. — Sam Shepard

I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence. — Tsegaye Gebre Medhin

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents. — John Lahr

Where there's tea there's hope. -Arthur W. Pinero, Playwright — 27Press

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive. — Jesse Eisenberg

I am an internationally produced playwright. — Israel Horovitz

With [Columbus'] sailors ready to revolt, land--as if cued by a hack playwright--suddenly materialized at the horizon on October 12, 1492. — Alan Axelrod

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays. — Vivien Leigh

And tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me ... — Sarah Kane

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled. — William Goldman

If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?' — Mark Twain

comedic playwright. — Niccolo Machiavelli