#playwrights

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#composers #dance #ephemeral #kind #painters

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#asparagus #been #curry #deny #dining

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

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

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

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#courage

Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice! ↗