Playwright Quotes

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

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

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

I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

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

It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

I never wanted to be a playwright.

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a group of actors. I have to be open to that interpretation. I'm not one of those hysterical playwrights that come and say, "This is not what I intended to do." It's one rendition of the piece.

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed

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

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.