“Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.”
Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play
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Famous Edward Albee Quotes
“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.”
“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.”
Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee
“A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.”
“What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.”
“The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.”
Source: At Home at the Zoo
“Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.”
“American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.”
“I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.”
Source: The Collected Plays of Edward Albee
“I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.”
Source: The Collected Plays of Edward Albee
“Progress is a set of assumptions.”
Source: Seascape: The Entire Appalling Business
“People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'”
Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee
Source: THE AMERICAN DREW THE ZOO STORY
“Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.”
Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee
“There is chaos behind the civility, of course.”
Source: The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?: Broadway Edition
“Every monster was a man first.”
Source: Tiny Alice
Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee