Playwright – Quotes

When I was around

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright. Gabrielle Zevin

Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it’s free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that … Read more

An activist is someone

An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to … Read more

I’ve taken [acting] class

I’ve taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who’s more kind of in the theater world, so he’s really educated me about playwrights. Eva Mendes

As far as dramas

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

A play has two

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor. Eric Bentley

Remember that you are

Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is … Read more

There are certainly times

There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with philosophers and poets, or playwrights. We do not live in that moment, and the best way to gauge the proximity of an academic field to power is by salary. Elliott Colla

I\\’m an actor and

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

I write in order

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of … Read more