Famous quotes by Playwrights

"I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may, I might write something instead"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"As is said about most writers: on the one hand, all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy"

Neil Simon, Playwright

"Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples"

Neil Simon, Playwright

"Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count"

Neil Simon, Playwright

"Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending"

Neil Simon, Playwright

"New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it!"

Neil Simon, Playwright

"Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18"

Neil Simon, Playwright

"Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money"

Neil Simon, Playwright

"If you can go through life without experiencing pain, you probably haven't been born yet"

Neil Simon, Playwright

"I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far"

Neil Simon, Playwright

"Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life"

Neil Simon, Playwright

"There is zero debate about whether the world is getting warmer. That is a fact, a measured fact. There is some debate, although not much anymore, about what's causing the world to get warmer. And the consensus, by far, is that it's us"

Peter Barnes, Playwright

"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly"

Howard Barker, Playwright

"This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?"

James Pinckney Miller, Playwright

"A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat"

James Pinckney Miller, Playwright

"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly"

Rose Franken, Playwright

"I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... The philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored"

Pam Gems, Playwright

"I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise"

Pam Gems, Playwright

"Women like silent men. They think they're listening"

Marcel Achard, Playwright

"When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped"

Marcel Achard, Playwright

"The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship"

Marcel Achard, Playwright

"Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life"

Douglas Jerrold, Playwright

"But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce"

Lanford Wilson, Playwright

"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year"

Adolph Green, Playwright

"We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature"

Adolph Green, Playwright

"A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green"

Michael Frayn, Playwright

"We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting"

Robert E. Sherwood, Playwright

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