Famous quotes by Playwrights

"But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college, spent in Dallas, working at the dog food factory and Bank America, and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"A child's spirit is like a child; you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others"

Moliere, Playwright

"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself"

Moliere, Playwright

"Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired!"

Moliere, Playwright

"I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me"

Moliere, Playwright

"I live on good soup, not on fine words"

Moliere, Playwright

"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows"

Moliere, Playwright

"Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"Work is much more fun than fun"

Noel Coward, Playwright

"Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others"

Noel Coward, Playwright

"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is"

Noel Coward, Playwright

"Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately, violence is never a solution in human affairs"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"Shakespeare has no answers for us at all"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"I'm interested in the real world"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Money does not make you happy, but it quiets the nerves"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

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