Famous quotes by Playwrights

"Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"The history of mankind is the history of ideas"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture"

Dario Fo, Playwright

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