Playwright Quotes - page 3

I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, 'Well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct.' (Adam Rapp)
I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that. View quote
Cherry Jones
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike. View quote
David Ives
When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy. View quote
David Suchet
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened. View quote
Ellen McLaughlin
I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright. View quote
Jason Katims
It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive. View quote
Jesse Eisenberg
The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents. View quote
John Lahr
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it. View quote
John Lahr
For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless. View quote
Jackson Katz
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 was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright. View quote
Liev Schreiber
I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character. View quote
Lusia Strus
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. View quote
Laura Linney
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright. View quote
Laura Wade
I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one. View quote
Laura Wade
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? View quote
Phylicia Rashad
One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer. View quote
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
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. View quote
Richard Greenberg
I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything. View quote
Skylar Astin
One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations. (Tracy Letts)
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. View quote
Walter Dean Myers
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future. View quote
Mark Helprin
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. View quote
Lewis Black
Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Anothers. View quote
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