Playwright Quotes

I'm not a playwright.
Bob Dylan

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
George Jean Nathan

Actor, Hole, Doughnut

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Wilson Mizner

Person, Him, Drama

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

Able, Against, Hold

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
Tom Stoppard

Time, Good, Long

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
Vivien Leigh

Act, Greater, Thinks

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
Arthur Miller

Live, Country, Lives

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.
Francis Ford Coppola

Thought, Wanted, Interested

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.
Francis Ford Coppola

Everything, Thought, Remember

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.
Mindy Kaling

School, Short, Kids

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.
Russell Baker

Time, Good, Political

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
Laura Linney

Father, Wanted, Since

You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.
Robert Duvall

Great, Sometimes, Used

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
Tony Kushner

Audience, Inflict

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.
Tony Kushner

Health, Happy, Live

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.
Tony Kushner

Place, Film, Public

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

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?
Don DeLillo

Happen, After, Working

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.
Liev Schreiber

Good, Teacher, Enough

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
Orson Scott Card

Money, Writing, Career

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

Living, Barely, Scrape

I never wanted to be a playwright.
Zoe Kazan

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

Time, Tough, Become

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
John Mahoney

Play, Acting, Known

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.
Tom Hardy

Great, Hate, Someone

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.
Peter Shaffer

Story, Studying, Valuable

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
Peter Shaffer

Experience, Girl, Sex

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
Alex Cox

Politics, Greatest, Everybody

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?
Phylicia Rashad

Time, Play, Why

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

Here, Poet, Sell

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