Playwright famous quotes

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

#Country #Way #Playwright

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
-- Beth Henley

#Kind #Enlightening #Playwright

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

#Odd #Playwright

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

#Vision #Would Be #Playwright

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

#Playwright

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

#Ideas #Actors #Playwright

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

#Class #Playwright #Elizabethan

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

#Character #Trying #Playwright

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

#Thinking #Play #Playwright

I never wanted to be a playwright.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Wanted #Playwright

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

#Actors #Playwright

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.
-- Nilo Cruz

#Hysterical #Playwright

I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.
-- George M. Cohan

#Writing #Play #Playwright