Christopher Durang famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Laughter can bring a new perspective.
-- Christopher Durang

#Laughter #Perspective
My parents didn't really know one another.
-- Christopher Durang

#Parent
My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.
-- Christopher Durang

#Letting Go #Emotion #Problem
I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.
-- Christopher Durang

#Atheist #Agnostic
I thought if I can do something more playful and light like my play BEYOND THERAPY, it might be a money maker. I think one of the reasons BEYOND THERAPY has legs - it's been very successful for me around the country - is because it's a friendly play, rather sunny.
-- Christopher Durang

#Country #Successful #Thinking
The first several scenes are about sexual addiction. They're not specifically political at all. . . . I didn't sit down and think, I am going to write something about the religious right. I started out by writing something about sexual addiction, and it evolved. . . . I don't look at a calendar and say, Oh! There's going to be an election in 1996. I think now, in 1993, I'll start writing a play that will be ready for it.
-- Christopher Durang

#Religious #Writing #Thinking
Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.
-- Christopher Durang

#College #Obsession #Film
On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.
-- Christopher Durang

#Grateful #Hands
When my parents separated, I was very grateful.
-- Christopher Durang

#Grateful #Parent
Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
-- Christopher Durang

#Jobs #Acting #Resentment
I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.
-- Christopher Durang

#Teacher #Mary
I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.
-- Christopher Durang

#Theatre #Grew Up #Grew
My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.
-- Christopher Durang

#Mother #Father #Thinking
I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.
-- Christopher Durang

#Needs #Need A Change #Friend In Need
It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to Christ, who died on Friday. If you did, you went to hell, . . That way, Hitler would be in hell alongside someone who ate meat on Friday. I thought there was no justice there.
-- Christopher Durang

#Friday #Justice #Church

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