All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
Peter Ustinov

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
Orlando Bloom

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.
Lusia Strus

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

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
Gavin Newsom

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
Timothy West

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
Stella Adler