#playwright

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used. ↗

— Laura Linney

#am #aware #character #clues #everything

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

#become #broadway #comedy #long-running #musical

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#as far as #average #average person #concerned #considered

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#better #essayist #i #i am #novelist

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#about #against #any #areas #being

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#living #make #playwright #scrape #you

A good heart is a beautiful home where you can always find peace! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#actors #dinner #drama #dramatic #fantastic

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years. ↗

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#hundred #playwrights #should #three #years

I have no great faith in women’s plays. They always seem to me to lack precisely that which women lack, viz: testicles. ↗

— George Henry Boker

#faith