Top 22 Playwright Quotes

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

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

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

Stella Adler

Ideas, Actors, Playwright

Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.65, Hal Leonard Corporation

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

Sam Shepard

Playwright

I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.

George M. Cohan

Writing, Play, Playwright

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

Beth Henley

Kind, Enlightening, Playwright

"Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

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

Arthur Miller

Country, Way, Playwright

The New York Times, February 9, 1986.

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

Laura Wade

Odd, Playwright

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

Bob Dylan

Playwright

"Bob Dylan Sounds Off On The Origin Of His New Record, Parlor Music, Dr. Dre, And Who His Songs Are About". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

C. S. Lewis

Stage, Producers, Playwright

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I never wanted to be a playwright.

Zoe Kazan

Wanted, Playwright

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

Timothy West

Character, Trying, Playwright

"The Birthday Party is 50", www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2008.

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Great Friendship, Playwright

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

Oliver Stone

Greek, Playwright

Source: www.avclub.com

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