Best Playwright Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 7

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.”

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Author:D. H. Lawrence

“If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.”

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Book:The wit and wisdom of Mae West

Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West

“One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a w-r-i-t-e; in other words, that a playwright is more of a craftsman than an artist of the big novel.”

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Author:Simon McBurney

“By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.”

Source: Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge

“The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept of the play that the cast, staff, and crew work to obtain.”

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Author:Laurence Sterne

“The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort. However, it is never a group effort of vague fellow committee members, but of associated autocrats-a playwright, a producer, a director, a stage manager, designers, and, above all, actors. Each accommodates the others, and may overlap others in function when necessary. But each autocrat assumes distinct responsibilities and accepts them completely.”

“Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our job is to support their poetic direction.”

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Author:Jules Fisher

“Oftentimes the quality of the light tells the story: the time of day, the weather, whether sun is streaming through the window. It can also help you appreciate what the actor is feeling, what the playwright wants you to feel. Any engineer can put a spot on someone.”

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Author:Jules Fisher

“I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.”

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Book:Twelve Major Plays

Source: Twelve Major Plays

“Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit as good as Arthur Miller or Eugene O'Neill or anyone. It's that fifth word where amateurs start to go wrong.”

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Author:Meredith Willson

“A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.”

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Book:In search of theater

Source: In search of theater

“It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.”

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Author:John Lithgow

“Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.”

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Book:The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Source: The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

“America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.”

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Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.”

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Author:Keith Johnstone

“Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.”

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Author:Alex Cox

“When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.”

Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

“All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“Every child has the capacity to be everything.”

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Book:Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days

Source: Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days

“I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.”

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Author:Lusia Strus

“I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.”

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Author:Tony Kushner

“If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.”

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Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.”